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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rosika Schwimmer, 55, is a plump, cultured Hungarian Jewess. She was once Hungarian Minister to Switzerland. Often she has visited and lectured in the U. S. In 1915 she helped organize Henry Ford's peace ship. Several times she has unsuccessfully tried to become a U. S. citizen (TIME, July11, Oct. 24, 1927). She has always denied that she would bear arms for the U. S., adding that she understood that was not required of women. But judges have considered that her oath of allegiance would be vitiated by her unwillingness to carry a defensive musket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Justice v. Schwimmer | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

Last year her petition for citizenship was refused by a Chicago District Court. Later the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals reversed this decision, directed the granting of citizenship, on the ground that Mme. Schwimmer was naturally disqualified from bearing arms by reason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Justice v. Schwimmer | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

...Rosika Schwimmer, 54, beetle-browned Hungarian Jewess, indefatigable publicist, onetime Hungarian Minister to Switzerland, has been trying for some time to become a U. S. citizen. Because she, in 1915, helped persuade Henry Ford to outfit and command his famed "Peace Ship," she was subjected to specially alert questioning by a Chicago naturalization board last summer (TIME, July 11). When she told the board she was an atheist and that she would not personally bear arms for the U.S. because " I understood that women are not required to bear arms in the United States," the board refused her citizenship. Last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Petition Denied | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

...stoutly answered Madame Schwimmer, "but I would warn the soldier. I would not kill a man, even if he tried to kill me." She added that she might fling herself upon the enemy and try to disarm him. "That's all," said Judge Carpenter. "Petition denied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Petition Denied | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

Then Judge Carpenter rose from his seat. He pointed at the U.S. flag over his courtroom door and sternly said to Mme. Schwimmer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Petition Denied | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

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