Word: dragnet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sorrowful Yellow Men. Not half so happy were thousands of enemy aliens who did not fall into the FBI dragnet last week. In Los Angeles a 61-year-old Japanese, Takematzu Izumi, a resident of California since 1896, swallowed poison when he heard that Japan had attacked Hawaii. Said he: "I am ashamed...." In Seattle the principal of the Japanese Language School did not turn up for classes. Newsmen called to find out what had happened. Said a stoical Japanese woman: "So sorry. FBI have the principal...
General Hershey told the committee that it will be necessary to "invade homes quite considerably." The new dragnet will have a smaller mesh. Commenting on past abuses of deferment privileges, General Hershey remarked dryly: "I must confess that we have found a great number of men who have assumed new and heavy responsibilities at home...