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...United State. The New York Federation of Women's Clubs has resolved that "no person except a natural-born citizen of the United States be eligible to be a Justice of the Supreme Court, a member of the Cabinet or Speaker of the House of Representatives." Alexander Hamilton, Carl Schurz and many other names illustrious in American history were cited by opponents of the resolution as proof that foreign birth does not disqualify a man for great service to the United States; but all to no avail...
...olden times?when Alexander Hamilton penned its editorials, when William Cullen Bryant purified its diction, and later, when E. L. Godkin and Carl Schurz were its brilliant "fighting" editors?the Post had a grand manner more than once...
...work and achievements of the Jewish people; and a book suitably inscribed for a student who, not needing financial aid and therefore ineligible to compete for the Elizabeth Wilder Prize, receives the highest mark at the mid-year examination in elementary German. This is known as the Carl Schurz Prize...
...couple of days later, at a Steuben Day celebration of the Steuben Society of America, Mr. LaFollette addressed some 18,000 German-Americans at the Yankee (baseball) Stadium in New York. He said that Carl Schurz, one-time Secretary of the Interior, was an Independent and a Progressive, and that he was typical of the greatness of German-Americans today. He said that German-Americans had done great things for the Government. Seats were sold at from 50¢ to $2.00, programs for 25¢, the speech for 10¢, and a collection was taken for the party campaign sheet. Afterward, several turnvereins...
...trace the progress of this malignant disease, which threatens the very foundation of Constitutional Government, we need only survey the wide chasm which separates Carl Schurz, Secretary of the Interior in Garfield's Cabinet, from Albert B. Fall, Harry M. Daugherty and others of intimate and daily association with this Administration...