Word: oswego
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Blaming its trouble on rural electrification and on the increased use of cigarette lighters and paper book matches, the Diamond Match Co. announced it would shut down its "kitchen match" plant in Oswego, N.Y. for ten weeks...
...refugees came to the U.S. and to Oswego, N.Y., in August 1944. President Roosevelt invited them; Oswego did not. What he intended was that the New World, giving them a haven, should bear its token share of the Old World's refugee burden. As their part of the bargain, Oswego's guests had agreed before sailing (from Italy) to go back...
...last week, with Europe's war over, they had long since changed their minds: most of them wanted to stay in the U.S. An Oswego liaison committee and Chairman Samuel Dickstein of the House Immigration and Naturalization Committee agreed that they should stay. But many Oswegonians (plus Hearst Columnist Westbrook Pegler) thought they should be held to the letter of the agreement: they had said they would go back, now let them...
Beyond the fence were other barriers. When the foreigners spoke brokenly or had trouble with restaurant menus, some Oswegonians snickered. Once, when a Yugoslav couple bade a visitor goodbye at the bus station and the men kissed each other on the cheek, townfolk watched with open amusement. Staid Oswego (pop. 22,062) was unprepared for such a massive transfusion; it could not help gaping, winking, misunderstanding, resenting...
Barriers Burned. Some of the refugees were readily assimilated. The Oswego High School graduated six of the refugees in June, and Principal Ralph Faust was impressed with their maturity and eagerness. Seven girls enrolled in the local business college. At the Fort, where private welfare groups like B'nai B'rith aided a recreation and work program, women crowded the beauty-culture school. Men and boys learned woodworking. Olga and Michael Mikhailoff-who once were in Italian films -got an amateur theater going. Carl Selan, who used to represent 20th Century-Fox in Zagreb, booked movies into...