Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proposal "the most significant utterance this year on labor issues by any political figure." Stevenson, said Lawrence, had voiced the U.S. public's deep disgust at the "irresponsible use of economic power." But despite public disgust, despite President Eisenhower's stern admonition before he departed for Asia that "America needs a settlement now," despite the danger than an aroused public might prod Congress into passing drastic antistrike legislation, Dave McDonald and the steel industry's negotiator, Conrad Cooper, broke off negotiations at midweek in another display of stubborn disregard for the public interest. McDonald airily demanded that...
...pattern was repeating itself throughout Southeast Asia. In Thailand, four Chinese businessmen were shot to death in public on suspicion that they had burned their shops to get the insurance. In Cambodia, Chinese residents were barred from 18 occupations, ranging from barbering to pawnbrokering to, curiously enough, espionage. In Indonesia, Chinese traders and their families-some 300,000 people-were ordered to get out of rural villages by year's end. Not since the Japanese swarmed into the South Pacific in World War II have Asia's Overseas Chinese felt their position so threatened...
...that has been faced before by the Overseas Chinese, an unassimilated group that has lived for centuries among alien peoples. As early as 300 B.C., Chinese merchants in clumsy junks coasted along the shores of Viet Nam. When European adventurers and explorers first made their hesitant way into Southeast Asia, they found, as Britain's Sir Thomas Herbert wrote in 1634, that in every major seaport were the "infinitely industrious Chyneses...
...People's Congress at Peking. The hua-chiao were called "the endeared children of the Chinese nation" and were told that their "proper rights and interests are now protected by their country." Thousands of hua-chiao students went to China to complete their education; Chinese schoolteachers throughout Southeast Asia displayed Peking's five-starred flag; delirious Singapore millionaires endowed academies and hospitals in China; and millions of dollars poured back to the homeland for hua-chiao relatives...
...anonymous gift of $10,000 has already covered a tenth of the estimated expenses for the Glee Club's proposed tour of Southeast Asia during the summer of 1961. The sum was recently contributed to the general fund for the trip and is not restricted in any way, according to Elliot Forbes '40, director of the Glee Club...