Word: loyalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...upper-graders, asking them to write him a personal letter "telling me just what it is you are doing or what you are planning to do as your part in this struggle." Each pupil who answers satisfactorily will get a certificate attesting that "he is carrying on a worthy loyal, thrifty and industrious plan to help win complete victory...
...Takeshi Suchiya, a pre-med at Compton District Junior College when the FBI rounded up his family: "When we stop to think it over, most of us understand the necessity for evacuation. But the immediate reaction is, we have got some rights as Americans. . . . I know my parents are loyal, yet they have been picked up. Anyhow, the whole thing's a mess and we'll just have to take...
Parachutists landing on Cyprus' two mountain ranges, or on the "Mesaoria" between them, would be met by 350,000 Greek-speaking Cypriots and Turks, all loyal to Britain. Defenses long neglected in pre-war days have been rushed to completion; they even utilize 14-foot walls built by the Crusaders. An attack might cost thousands more lives than Crete. But the plunder would be greater...
...Angeles, 19-year-old Nisei Shigeki (Arthur) Kaihatsu reflected on the problem of his people. A former freshman star on the basketball team at U.C.L.A., young Arthur now works in a vegetable market. Said he: "Most of us Nisei are completely loyal. ... I guess there are some spies among us. I don't know. But the answer seems to be to take the whole bunch of us and dump us in one spot. The spies can't do any damage, and we won't be suspected...
...Play Hob. Father John has still another bag in which to stow unorganized workers, and another relative to hold the bag: loyal Brother Denny, whose United Construction Workers union has invaded A.F. of L.'s building trades, has grabbed everybody it could lay its hands on. How many new C.I.O. members are under the Lewis flag is a military secret buried deep in Lewis' files. But there are enough to play hob with C.I.O. harmony, enough to start a dozen bitter labor jurisdictional wars...