Word: citizenships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sutherland last night insisted that he and Chafee limited their statement to contemporary United States. One of the responsibilities of citizenship, he said, "is participating in the administration of justice by serving as witnesses; and in making of laws by testifying before legislative bodies...
...seems to demand in increasing measure too. However, it is not only totalitarian but indecent, if the judgment of society becomes the standard by which an individual is judged also by those with whom he is connected not socially but personally, and by more intimate bonds than those of citizenship. For the fact that someone is a law defying. citizen does not mean that he could therefore not at the same time be the best of fathers, the most perfect of gentlemen, or the most outstanding scholar. The great newspaperman is not the one who divulges before Court the identify...
...overran the city in 1922 and killed his father and other members of his family. Onassis had enough cash to buy passage for Argentina, where immigration restrictions were few. He worked for seven years as a tobacco importing agent, piled up about $180,000; in 1930, with his Greek citizenship restored, he became Greek consul general, at the age of 24, in Buenos Aires. Onassis supervised the comings & goings of Greek grain vessels, soon decided that his future lay in shipping. In the depths of the Depression, when old mariners were abandoning ship, Onassis climbed aboard. He took his savings...
Wisdom and Good Citizenship...
First. It is not only a legal requirement but also a principle of wisdom and good citizenship for an individual called before a court, grand jury, or a legislative investigating committee to answer questions frankly and honestly. The constitutional privilege to keep silent is an exception to the legal obligation to testify; but even when the legal privilege is available, there are times when it is best not exercised...