Word: join
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Seijiro Suchiya, born in Japan, came to Los Angeles 22 years ago with his wife and his infant son to join the fishing fleet at Terminal Island. When FBI men raided the Island two months ago, Seijiro had three grown sons, lived in a clean, comfortable house-from which he could see the U.S. fleet at anchor off San Pedro...
Significantly, at week's end, the Mirror's biting Columnist "Cassandra"-burly, 32-year-old, Irish-born William Neil Connor -announced he was quitting to join the Army. Britain's most detested, adored, vastly read gadfly thus said farewell: "I am still a comparatively young man and I propose to see whether the rifle is a better weapon than the printed word. Mr. Morrison can have my pen-but not my conscience. Mr. Morrison can have my silence-but not my self-respect...
...home town, where Canby has bought back the old Kittredge home, and a local press with which he proposes henceforth to earn his living. But before the Kittredges can solve the problem of re-rooting, they must make the great decision: Should one, or should one not join the Communist Party...
...management, the Murray plan was socialistic horror. Actually the plan had been laid out simply as an effort to get labor and management to lay aside mutual suspicion and join in attempts to get more efficient production. But it got off on the wrong foot...
Burmese fifth columnists continued to join the Japs, who paddled up the Irrawaddy in small boats to make contact with traitors on the banks. In southern Burma the Japs were moving supplies on elephant-back- obviously aided by Burmese mahouts, since the Jap and the elephant are not well acquainted. American Volunteer Group flyers machine-gunned the elephants, and when that failed to drop or even halt the beasts, the flyers dumped fire bombs, hoping to start stampedes...