Word: tule
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yoshiko Tanigawa, 22, a Nisei girl who spent 20 months at the Tule Lake detention camp during the war, was commissioned an ensign in the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps, went on duty at the Long Beach, Calif. Naval Hospital. She is the U.S Navy's only Japanese-American officer...
Strange things were done. The state, hot for progress of a sort, phlegmatically prepared to tear down 21 apartments, a hotel, 382 houses to make way for a new superhighway. There were rumors: Los Angeles heard that hundreds of Japs were about to descend from Tule Lake, seeking bed & board. Then 1,500 members of the Los Angeles Apartment House Association held a meeting to abuse the OPA, ended up by deciding to take no less than 21,474 apartments off the rental market...
...large, they were the fanatical, troublemaking variety of Nisei segregated at Tule Lake, Calif., for disloyalty. Until a year ago change of allegiance was so difficult to achieve that a Nisei had to commit treason or desert from the armed forces to make it. Now, thanks to a recent act of Congress, anybody can renounce his U.S. citizenship if the U.S. Attorney General finds it is not contrary to the national defense...
Fair Play. The feeling is bitterest in California. A month ago 4,000 Japs, segregated at Tule Lake for disloyalty, rioted; the affair was clumsily handled by the fumbling War Relocation Authority. Pro-U.S. Japs suffered from the Tule trouble. Almost their only defender has been the Pacific Coast Committee on American Principles and Fair Play. Among its board members: the University of California's President Robert Gordon Sproul; Stanford's former President Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur; the University of Oregon's President Donald Erb; Nobel Prizewinner Dr. Robert A. Millikan. But when the Fair Play...
Ambassador Grew, now special assistant to the Secretary of State, spoke in New York City. But his words were meant for the Pacific Coast, where 16,000 disloyal Japs, concentrated at Tule Lake, rioted a fortnight ago. Their troublemaking, compounded by sensationalized news reporting, had stirred bitter feeling up & down the coast against all U.S. Japanese. Yet many Japanese-Americans were in the U.S. Army; some were fighting ably in Italy; thousands of others have been cleared by the FBI, are now trying to begin life anew...