Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hateful smearing campaign of the New York tabloids often made me angry and created resentment in Puerto Rican professionals who attended American universities . . . You have done a lot for us, who are proud of our American citizenship, and for that, as a Puerto Rican ... I do thank...
...Francisco last week, Federal Judge George Harris revoked the U.S. citizenship of Harry Bridges on a finding that the West Coast longshore leader had got it fraudulently by denying that he had ever been a Communist. Unless higher courts come to his rescue, Bridges, already under sentence of five years for perjury, will presumably be deported to his native Australia, which doesn't want him either...
...important thing to N.S.A. and to their friends is that, in the past year, all seven have decided they would like to be citizens of this country, and with apparent pride they show their first citizenship papers to visitors...
...considered themselves white. In New York, they found that two-thirds of them were considered colored, in a land where color makes a great deal of difference. Older Italian immigrants, their unwilling neighbors, resented the fact that "people who could not even speak English" had all the rights of citizenship. Negroes found them competing for rooms and jobs, and there were fights because Negro girls went out with Puerto Rican boys. Puerto Ricans learned what it is to be the object of prejudice, often met discrimination. "The poorest they have in the store is good enough for the Puerto Ricans...
...party meetings. ¶Granite-faced, big-eared Michael Lee had been cleared in one Commerce Department loyalty check before he became involved recently in a second one. Born in Harbin, Manchuria of Russian parents and christened Ephraim Zinovi Liberman, Lee had failed three times in bids for U.S. citizenship (grounds: he was not of "good character" and was not "attached to the principles of the Constitution"). Lee changed his name, married an American, and on the fourth try achieved citizenship. Only two months ago, while a subcommittee investigated charges that Lee had slowed down vital gasoline shipments to the Chinese...