Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...State Board of Education v. Barnette, a milestone case in which the majority ruled that it is unconstitutional for a state to require schoolchildren to salute the nation's flag. Frankfurter argued that since the state law aimed toward "a legitimate legislative end, namely the promotion of good citizenship the court should not interfere. "One who belongs to the most vilified and persecuted minority in history is not likely to be insensible to the freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution. Were my purely personal attitude relevant, I should wholeheartedly associate myself with the general libertarian views in the Court...
...Cuba Committee, figured in Castro's English-language broadcasts. Another who still does is Barbara Collins, also known as "Beardless Barbara," the 25-year-old daughter of a New Jersey clergyman. With her small daughter in hand, she skipped to Havana on a cruise ship, took out Cuban citizenship, and now chats winningly about the charms of Communist Cuba. Robert Williams, 37, a North Carolina Negro who fled the U.S. to escape kid nap charges, denounces the U.S. for its "vicious caste system . . . designed to permanently dehumanize all colored people...
...race, we must work passionately and unrelentingly for first-class citizenship, but we must never use second-class methods to gain it. If this happens, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and our chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos...
Schooled both in England and the U.S., Winston opted for U.S. citizenship when he was 21. A handsome, gentle giant (6 ft. 4 in.), Winston became one of the world's top polo stars; he had a ten-goal rating (the maximum) and starred for the U.S. in international matches...
...citizenship haunted Soriano last year during a bitter battle with rival Manila Capitalist Eugenio Lopez over the management of Philippine Air Lines, which Soriano organized in 1941. Attacked as a foreigner guilty of monopolistic profiteering, Soriano lost his temper during a Senate hearing on his management of P.A.L. and incautiously snapped out: "A thief thinks everyone else is a thief." The Senate committee issued a report imply ing that some of Soriano's other enter prises had been overcharging P.A.L. for their services - whereupon Soriano gave up operating the airline. But his with drawal has not kept...