Word: citizenships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just don't know which way to turn," Fischer said last night. "Right now I'm trying to get a Presidential appeal, but my best hopes are very slim." The draft board has completely refused to reconsider his case on the grounds that Fischer does not have American citizenship, which allows a conscientious objector status...
...disheartening thing about all this," Fischer objected, "is that my citizenship papers are being delayed because the draft board won't give me a conscientious objector listing." As a citizen of Belgium, Fischer is caught in a vicious circle that apparently can have no satisfactory ending...
...where clowns are universally rated as the top act in any circus, Grock was acclaimed as the greatest of them all. The Queen of Spain once gave premature birth to a royal heir from laughing too hard at his antics. Winston Churchill once urged him to take out British citizenship so that Britons might claim him as their own. Even Charlie Chaplin was once kind enough to concede that Grock was almost as good...
...growing conformity around the country or on the attempt of worried legislators to fight indoctrination without understanding basic issues, it remains that the Alabama legislature did pass Act 888, and it remained on the books almost a year. There can be no sharper warning for alert citizenship than this...
...responsibilities of citizenship...