Word: sacramento
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kamematsu Osada, 68, became the first to return to a California defense area since the evacuation of early 1942. He turned up in Sacramento with his proudest possession, a canary named Dick, that can whistle America. Osada was allowed to come home when his wife, a white U.S. citizen who had remained behind, fell ill. Reaction to Osada's return varied. Said one neighbor: "It isn't nice to see them loose on the streets. . . ." Said another: "One Japanese free won't be so bad." Said Osada: "I would go to war any time for this country...
...Learns about War. Farm-born in New Mexico's Sacramento Mountains, Bill Mauldin started drawing when he was three. At eight, he moved with his mother and brother to a homestead near Phoenix, Ariz., at nine wrote an anti-war poem. He got his first job as an artist at twelve, drawing posters for a rodeo. While in high school at Phoenix, he took a correspondence course in cartooning, sold his first cartoon for $10. He left high school without graduating, went to Chicago, worked variously as a truck driver, dishwasher and menu designer to pay for his studies...
...Sacramento another bulldog named Rummy Girl was summoned by a possessive mistress in a will directing that Rummy Girl be killed, placed in a casket and buried in a cat-&-dog cemetery...
Baseball's Paul Bunyan is Sergeant Charley Cronin. He keeps on mowing 'em down. Last week he had won 69 straight games in three years of Army pitching (including a recent victory over Sacramento of the Pacific Coast League). The Fort Lewis (Wash.) pitcher is a 30-year-old ex-minor leaguer, who won 24, lost 19 with Springfield of the Three-I League before retiring with a sore arm. The St. Louis Browns, the Cardinals and Detroit had liked his fast ball but labeled him too frail (150 lbs.) to stand the gaff. On Army beans...
Connecticut's Raymond E. Baldwin wanted some changes made. So did Illinois' Dwight H. Green. And California's independent Governor Earl Warren got angry when his canned speech arrived in Sacramento just 24 hours before his broadcast. Warren, who goes along with California labor, got a text salted with attacks on "the Earl Browder-Sidney Hillman-Communist-allied Political Action Committee." Warren blue-penciled furiously. In Manhattan, red-faced GOPsters rushed out corrections...