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Word: joaquin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cold California fog hung over San Joaquin Valley. Inside Beardsley's dance hall, near Bakersfield, the air was steaming with the exertions of 1,358 oil workers and farmers as they jived, jumped, or just jogged to the music. The men were mostly tieless; the fruit-cannery girls they danced with were mostly in sweaters and slacks. On the platform, Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys tapped their pointed, hand-stitched boots, and plunked and blew their way through Take Me Back to Tulsa. On benches lining the walls, babies in blankets slept through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Strictly by Ear | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

Walking home at dusk from an afternoon's jack rabbit-shooting in the flat, dusty San Joaquin Valley, Levi Multanen, 33, thought of his nephew, long missing in the South Pacific. That reminded him how much he hated Japs. Passing the home of Nisei Charles Iwasaki, a raisin-grape grower, Rancher Multanen paused. He knew who lived there-a Jap. Impulsively he leveled his shotgun, fired four times. He walked home, feeling better. The Iwasakis, scared but unwounded, did nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Community Arrangement | 6/11/1945 | See Source »

...past month there had been seven, cases of violence against Nisei in the San Joaquin Valley. It seemed time for at least a gesture of law & order. Rancher Multanen was arrested, charged with "rude and threatening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Community Arrangement | 6/11/1945 | See Source »

Almost at the same time, on the floor of the San Francisco conference, Chilean Delegate Joaquin Fernandez y Fernandez strode in, waving a copy of the Call-Bulletin with the screamer: NAZIS QUIT. The delegates, who had been listening to a translation of a speech in Spanish, rose and clapped. So did Comrade Molotov, who was presiding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: False Alarm | 5/7/1945 | See Source »

...Latin Americans, keeping close to Assistant Secretary of State Nelson Rockefeller, hoped to swing some small changes in Dumbarton Oaks. Big guns were Mexico's suave Foreign Minister, Ezequiel Padilla, Chile's Joaquin Fernandez y Fernandez, and Brazil's Pedro Leāo Velloso. who brought along his imposing wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCES: The Delegates | 4/30/1945 | See Source »

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