Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mayor of Kent, Wash., truck-gardening town near Seattle, which had some 1,600 Japs before the war, had signs printed up: "We Don't Want the Japs Back Here Ever." The mother lodge (15,000 members) of the Fraternal Order of Eagles voted unanimously in Seattle to deport all U.S. Japanese after the war. So did the Portland Progressive Business Men's Club, and the Oregon State Legion. Hardly anyone ever bothered to distinguish between the alien Japanese, who are deportable, and U.S. citizens of Japanese ancestry. A battalion of U.S.-born Japs is fighting well...
Four of the shows are badly written. The only one which is an exception is the fourth, "Mail Call," which tells the story of a dead soldier, as seen through the eyes of his friends. In the final part, they write a letter to his mother telling him of his heroism--despite the fact that every one of them saw him shot in the back by his sergeant while he was running away from the battle line...
Besides singing with the Harvard Glee Club, the Radcliffe Choral Society will sing several carols by themselves, among them, "Harken, Harken, Mother Dear," a Cezch carol. Lorna M. Cooke, choirmaster, will direct the 'Cliffe girls. Between 900 and 1000 people attended the concerts last year...
...West Coast war babies-its brand-new aluminum industry. Thriving on cheap power, five huge reduction plants have burgeoned in less than four years, now turn out 30% of U.S. pig aluminum. But many a West Coast industrialist is worried over the baby's future. Reason: its mother, mammoth Alcoa, may strangle...
...Much delinquency is taught in ... schools. . . . Some [teachers] have tested out techniques worthy of mention. ... Johnny didn't smell like a rose. Even a bad head cold wouldn't have availed you. He really didn't smell bad on purpose. He was a dull normal, his mother probably a moron. When verbal warnings failed to beget the desired attar of roses, teacher moved him four seats from the nearest pupil and by gesture and innuendo, if not by edict, conveyed to the class the idea that Johnny was ostracized. This technique worked beautifully. Johnny...