Word: citizenships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time to celebrate is when you're admitted to the family," said Irish-born Cinemactress Greer Garson (now Mrs. Elijah E. Fogelson) as she slipped into Fort Worth to apply for U.S. citizenship...
World Citizen Garry Davis, who renounced his citizenship in 1948 to plump for a world without boundaries, decided that he wanted to be a U.S. citizen after all. Back from Haiti where he had gone in protest against "American intervention in Korea," he penned a plea to the U.S. Attorney General asking if his U.S. birth and war record would be enough "to bypass the time usually required by an immigrant to become a citizen...
...Smuts was too busy with his father's fields and herds to learn to read until he was twelve. At 21, he won a scholarship to Cambridge University. When he returned to South Africa, he found growing strife between Briton and Boer. Good Boer Smuts renounced his British citizenship...
...Norseman named Lief, he was born with "a yen for the different." He quit Norway at 17 to study at Minnesota's Augsburg College, later got a degree in civil engineering at the University of Minnesota. After a World War I stint as a lieutenant (he got his citizenship while in uniform) Sverdrup teamed up with John Ira Parcel, one of his old professors at Minnesota, to tackle big construction jobs. They built nine bridges over the Missouri River, four across the Mississippi, another over Missouri's Lake of the Ozarks and one over the locks...
...Price of Citizenship." But the Maoris did not die out. Today they are a healthy, thriving people. They are among the leaders of many professions. Racial discrimination in New Zealand is un known, and intermarriage of whites and Maoris is common. Through World War II the Maori Battalion fought in Montgomery's Eighth Army, paying heavily in casualties for what they called proudly "the price of citizenship." Recently, when color-conscious South Africa refused to accept Maoris in a team of touring New Zealand footballers, white New Zealanders were bitterly affronted...