Word: deportations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before Pearl Harbor, the Japanese colony in Peru numbered some 20,000. In 1942, Peru cracked down. Jap businesses were closed or transferred to Peruvians. Many Japs were deported to the U.S. It might be harder to deport the Black Dragon...
Bolivia's revolutionary Government, all spruced up and awaiting U.S. recognition, last week let super-rich Mauricio Hochschild out of jail and prepared to deport him. Jailed for counter-revolutionary plotting, the tin tycoon had escaped worse punishment by promising to keep out of Bolivia and her politics. Tricky Don Mauricio had always managed to keep a potent hand in Bolivian affairs (TIME, May 8). But President Gualberto Villarroel's regime evidently felt strong enough to deal with him in one way or another...
...same reasoning as that used by the people of New Jersey, why don't we get rid of the English-Americans, now living in our country, in retaliation for the tyranny of their forefathers, kick out the German-Americans in answer to the atrocities committed by the Nazis, deport the Italian-Americans...
...railroad Joan out of town, to influence her to plead guilty under a vagrancy charge of which she was innocent, to deprive her of her Constitutional rights.* If guilty on all counts, 54-year-old Chaplin could be fined $26,000, spend 23 years in federal prison. But to deport British Subject Chaplin from the U.S., two proved offenses against the Mann Act would be enough...
...plot by pro-Nazi elements, "including Germans, and Japanese." They had planned to stage anti-Semitic riots on New Year's Eve, seize power during the confusion. Tipped off by "outside sources" (the State Department was suggested), the Government of President Manuel Prado arrested the plotters, planned to deport some of them...