Word: nisei
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eisenhower. Leading in the race for one of the U.S. Senate seats was former (1951-53) Democratic Territorial Governor Oren E. Long. 70. Way out in front for the other two congressional posts were two Hawaiians of Oriental ancestry: Democratic House Candidate Daniel K. Inouye, 34, World War II Nisei hero, and Republican Senatorial Candidate Hiram Fong, 52, a Chinese-American and a self-made millionaire (see box). Elected Lieutenant Governor: Big Island Republican Politico James Kealoha, 51. who is half Hawaiian, half Chinese...
...outsiders' first big toehold in real estate. But most affected by the shock were the thousands of Japanese-Americans whose ancestry made them suroect, especially to faraway Washington and the apprehensive military. Intensely loyal to the U.S., crushed by the restrictions of martial law and threatened internment, the Nisei wallowed in confusion until their island friends came to their rescue, set up coordinating committees that satisfied the suspicious, promoted Nisei war-bond purchases and blood donations, talked encouragingly to 10,-ooo individual Japanese.-Notable among the helpful, friendly Caucasians: Jack Burns, the Montana-born Honolulu...
...political monopoly. Before World War II, island Democrats existed largely on the sufferance of Democrats in Washington, had a hard time holding rallies on outlying islands, because owners shut them out of the plantations. Now, under ex-Cop Jack Burns, the Democrats gathered steam, most of it from energetic Nisei, who remembered the sardonic, white-haired Burns and his aloha-style defense of the Japanese-Americans in the war's early days. In 1954, Hawaii's sclerotic Republicanism crumbled in the territorial legislature before the Democrats' thrusting new onslaught-But then the Democrats, in turn, botched their...
...single House seat, Hawaii's fast-rising Democrat Dan Inouye, 34, who lost his right arm in action with the famous Nisei 442nd Regimental Combat Team in World War II, resoundingly beat Mrs. Patsy Takemoto Mink, 31. He will run against Republican Charles H. Silva, 55, Hawaii's Territorial Director of Institutions...
...pressured out of the June 27 Senate primary race the party's youngest, brightest star: Territorial Senator Daniel K. Inouye, 34, a lawyer who lost his right arm and won a D.S.C. as a second lieutenant platoon leader in World War II's famed "Go For Broke" Nisei 442nd Regimental Combat Team. Agreeing to try for Hawaii's lone House of Representatives seat instead, Inouye made no bones about the reason for his decision: "It would give some elder statesmen in our party a clear field...