Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President surveyed his army of guests-550 delegates to the fifth annual National Citizenship Conference-and quietly decided to save himself the ordeal of 550 hearty handshakes. Instead, Mr. Truman escorted the visitors outside to the White House gardens, got up onto a black wrought-iron bench near some fragrant rosebushes and made a little speech...
...come to the U.S. to get her American citizenship after marrying a naturalized U.S. combat veteran in Germany after the war. She was stopped at Ellis Island by Justice's Immigration and Naturalization Service, which announced that she was a bad security risk, and stood on its legal right to give no details. Immigration prepared to send Mrs. Knauff back to Europe...
...piece of Los Angeles real estate, but could not get legal title because of California's Alien Land Act. Under the act-which has been regularly attacked and just as regularly upheld by both state and federal courts for almost 30 years-aliens who are ineligible for citizenship may not own California land. Los Angeles Attorney J. Marion Wright argued that the Alien Land Act conflicted with the Charter of the U.N. The three appeals judges pondered, and decided, in fact, that Wright was right...
CZECH COMPLAINTS. Dispatched: a demand for a Czech government apology to 40-year-old Katherine Kosmak, U.S. employee of the U.S. Information Service in Prague, who swore she had been pressured by Czech police to marry a Czech fellow-worker and renounce U.S. citizenship. Received: a brusque note demanding 1) the recall of U.S. Press Attache Joseph Kolarek for "inducing" Czech USIS employees "to spy and gather news"; and 2) the closing of the two USIS offices because they are spy centers and spread "hostile and aggravating and false news." Dispatched: a reluctant compliance (since international law is on their...
What concentration in Government can do and why it attracts the largest clientele are difficult questions. In a way, it offers a general education in somewhat informed citizenship; but unless politics or government service is one's anticipated career, it can give little practical assistance. Government concentration has never been known to boost anybody into Law School; but many lawyers do find its courses of some value in practice...