Word: isn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mathes is the dubiously-honored recipient of many press notices, verbally offered by his roommates--who seem fascinated by Joe's many athletic abilities. "Track is my favorite,' says Joe, "broad jumping and running the dashes are my specialty, but baseball isn't far behind...
...early 1942. He turned up in Sacramento with his proudest possession, a canary named Dick, that can whistle America. Osada was allowed to come home when his wife, a white U.S. citizen who had remained behind, fell ill. Reaction to Osada's return varied. Said one neighbor: "It isn't nice to see them loose on the streets. . . ." Said another: "One Japanese free won't be so bad." Said Osada: "I would go to war any time for this country, even...
...Cleveland war-plant worker, he had asked both Franklin Roosevelt and War Secretary Stimson for a chance to fight. Said he: "My people are Americans, even though I was born in Japan and can't be a citizen because my skin is yellow. This war isn't one race against another-it is a war of ideas and principles. I want to fight the Japanese fascists...
Eire dependent on the Sassenach? Isn't that the fine talk to be coming out of the mouth of an Irishman? And did his party delegates rise like one man and cry: "Take off your shoes, Mulcahy, and show us the true webbed feet of a bogtrotter-or bad cess...
Elsa, who admits she is not a great writer, was rather pleased that Publisher Knight had called her column "fluffy." "I try hard to be fluffy," she says, "but it isn't easy, you know." Being friends with the famous of two continents has proved a weighty and sobering responsibility for her. She prides herself on her political insight. Said she last week, slapping her dictaphone: "Politically I have been right. I have called the turn on everything...