Word: joining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Many join because their fathers belonged. Some join because membership is good for their business or good for their political careers (this is known scornfully as "button Masonry"). More join because they meet the town's best citizens on eye level. Some, perhaps, join out of mere curiosity over the mysterious rites. The majority join just to be with the gang-and are more or less surprised to experience a quite considerable spiritual uplift after they get in. Said a Rutland, Vt. advertising salesman: "There's something gets under your skin at a lodge meeting which makes...
...Farmers," he added, "are running into debt because of low government prices for their forced food deliveries; they like our support of higher prices. Many merchants and businessmen are going bankrupt because of high taxes, so they join our mass demonstrations for low taxes . . . Present conditions have caused a clear left tendency...
...Join the Communists." They were the first of 95,000 whom the Russians had promised to send home this year. Some 300,000 other Japanese P.W.s were still unaccounted for. What had happened to them was anybody's guess...
...spoke about their captivity in various ways. "The Russian treatment was on the whole good," some would say with jerky glances over their shoulders. "I say join the Communists in Japan, but I want to wait and see what conditions are really like first." At times, when one of the dyed-in-the-wool Communists passed, the voices would die to a murmur...
...Russian-sponsored Minshu Ka Undo (Democratic Movement) in his camp, said: "The Russians trust us and we trust the Russians. We soon found out from our newspapers there how we had been duped by fascists and capitalists." Snapped former Pfc. Tsugio Kishimoto, prison company commander: "We must all join the Communist Party. It is our only chance to build a new, democratic Japan...