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Leno Yard was born 20 years ago in New York's teeming, fetid Harlem. Ambitious, he went .to big (7,693 pupils) DeWitt Clinton High School, where he went out for track, and studied hard. He graduated in 1941, clerked for a while in a bookstore. He wanted to help in the war. So he enrolled for a four-month course in machine-shop work at the National Youth Administration's Quoddy training center near Eastport, Me., site of the defunct Passamaquoddy power project...
...Alaska publisher journeyed to Seattle and San Francisco to appeal to General DeWitt's Fourth Army Command...
...history set out for Manzanar, in California's desolate Owens Valley. In the cavalcade were some 300 Japanese aliens and Nisei-U.S. citizens of Japanese blood. They were part of the first mass evacuation from the forbidden strip of West Coast land which Lieut. General John Lesesne DeWitt has made a military zone (TIME, March...
...Manzanar, General DeWitt may settle as many as 50,000 of the Coast's 112,353 Jap aliens and Nisei. Another 20,000 will be placed on the Colorado River Indian Reservation at Parker, Ariz...
Most aliens, far from thinking the Army's haste unseemly, wished last week that General DeWitt would move them faster, before they starve. In San Francisco's Little Tokyo, store fronts were plastered with huge signs, proclaiming: "Evacuation Sale." In one window, under the sign, hung a red-white-&-blue poster: "God Bless America, the Land We Love." Under that, another sign: "Twenty Percent...