Word: loyalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...special commission will determine which Japs have been loyal to Canada and which Japs disloyal. The disloyal Japs, citizens or not, will be deported to Japan, whether born there or not. The loyal Japs will be treated justly. "No person of Japanese origin," the Prime Minister remarked, "born in Canada, has yet been charged with any act of sabotage or disloyalty...
Harry Truman had also been utterly loyal for twelve years to Boss Pendergast-ever since he had lost all his money ($15,000) in a postwar Kansas City haberdashery venture, and Pendergast had started him off as a county road overseer. By 1934 Harry Truman had become presiding judge of Jackson County, Mo. (which in Missouri is actually the county's administrative officer; as such he spent $25,000,000 on roads and buildings). He was ripe for another step up the ladder, and asked Pendergast for the county collectorship. Big Tom replied: "The best...
...battleground was so restricted that German reconnaissance had ample warning of the push-but the battleground will always be restricted while the Allies remain bottled up on the Normandy peninsula. The weather was vile; dust-dry one day, bucketing rain the next two or three-but even the most loyal correspondents were weary of apologizing for the fighting weather...
While advance elements pushed rapidly forward, ahead of schedule, with casualties running at the same rate as on Saipan (150 dead & missing each day), the Army's 77th ("Statue of Liberty") Division was landed in support of the marines. The Japs quickly gathered their strength and Loyal U.S. nationals, but not citizens. counterattacked on both sectors, mainly at night, but were beaten back. At the end of four days Orote with its airstrip was cut off; several villages had been occupied; the once-sleepy capital, Agafia, shattered by shellfire, was sleepless but expectant...
This was Saipan, as recorded by Lieut. Loyal ("Larry") B. Hays and Technical Sergeant Keene Hepburn of the U.S. Marines. After 13 days there, they were back in the U.S. last week, editing 15 to 20 hours of the best portable wire and disc recordings of battle action made during World War II. They put home-fronters (CBS, We, the People) just about as close to the battle as they could get without participating...