Word: citizenships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shares with two elderly aunts, a cousin and several cats. But Claire found Italy "beautiful and peaceful" - until the American consulate demanded her passport to return her to the U.S. as a minor living abroad without her parents' consent. Claire refused, said she would renounce her American citizenship first, and got an Italian soggiorno (residence permit), which expired this week...
...California state chairman, portly, Russian-born William Schneiderman, 46, was picked up in New York City. Schneiderman made headlines back in 1942, when Russia was an ally and Communists not so actively recognized by everybody as a clear & present danger. When the U.S. tried to revoke Schneiderman's citizenship, as a Communist, the late Wendell L. Willkie successfully defended him before the U.S. Supreme Court, describing him as a man with a "strong social urge," and arguing that Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson also "talked of revolution under certain circumstances." Now Schneiderman is in jail, waiting to stand trial...
...public, in addition to its schedule of closed meetings. Featured speakers have been: John E. Ivey, Jr., director of the Board of Control for Southern Regional Education; Norman Cousina, editor of the Saturday Review of Literature; and Paul H. Apple by, dean of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University...
...then Gape got to thinking. By the terms of the will, he would have to live in England. It would be tough to leave Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio; he might even lose his U.S. citizenship. There were some other jokers too. The death tax in England and other debts would take more than half the estate, leaving him but $112,000 and an income of around $5,000 a year. Income tax would chop off perhaps half of that. Upkeep would be expensive and the four servants hardly seemed enough. The biggest problem, thought Gape, was England itself: he was worried...
...haven for Mrs. Oksana Kasenkina became a law of the land. President Truman signed the bill waiving immigration requirements, and paving the way for citizenship for the onetime Soviet schoolteacher who made her three-story leap to freedom from a Soviet consulate window in Manhattan almost three years...