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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reported Point Barrow's Guy Oka-kok, "the Northernmost Correspondent in the World," to his friends in Fairbanks one day last week after a treasured visit from Interior Secretary Fred Seaton, 49, in 30-below weather. A strong Republican campaigner, Seaton flew into Alaska to help the G.O.P. ticket in the first post-statehood election contests. Wherever he touched down, Fred Seaton wowed; and where he did not wow, he wooed. "I want so desperately for this great state to get off to the right start," said Campaigner Seaton to as many of Alaska's nearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALASKA: Fred & the 49th | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

...change, even in the most remote areas, is on the way. In Iwano village in southern Honshu a 60-year-old farm wife named Yori Oka has been waging a highly successful "Down with Feudalism" campaign. She organized cooking schools, sewing classes, formed a Village Women's Association, and finally thought of Green Flag Day. Once a month the Women's Association plants a green flag in the village square, and beneath its protection the daughters and even the daughters-in-law take a day of rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Of Rice & Women | 9/2/1957 | See Source »

...last week Mrs. Oka's green flag fluttered in Iwano's square, and not a woman was to be seen in the rice fields, the woodsheds or the poultry pens; instead they strolled about the streets, rested in bed or chattered happily away over cups of green tea at Mrs. Oka's house. Iwano's 500 men bustled about cooking lunch, washing dishes, and bending wearily over the rice fields. The mothers-in-law, unhappiest of all, sat back grimly, arms folded, refused either to work or consort with the archtraitor Oka, who had incited such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Of Rice & Women | 9/2/1957 | See Source »

...seem to object. "We must be resigned to change," said one. As for Mr. Oka, he seemed completely in sympathy with his wife's aims. "It's time we men treated our women better," he conceded. "We should handle them at least as lovingly as we handle the rice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Of Rice & Women | 9/2/1957 | See Source »

...During the days of the united front in China (1938-39) before the Stalin-Matsu-oka pact, my husband [George Fitch] went to Yenan from Chungking with Chou Enlai...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 31, 1954 | 5/31/1954 | See Source »

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