Word: zoot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leave in Los Angeles, I had opportunity to investigate the zoot suit feud [TIME, June 21]. . . . I could find nothing to ""distinguish the behavior of our soldiers from the behavior of Nazi storm troop thugs that roved Berlin in mobs bent on beating up outnumbered non-Aryans...
...Angeles papers carried this typical headline: "Zoot Suit Hoodlum Mobs Attack Service Men." I saw nothing to justify this headline except circulation. I found the situation to be entirely the reverse. I found the zooter on most occasions outnumbered 200 to one, except in their enforced segregated districts...
Four hundred Mexican students gathered before the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs in Mexico City one day last week, tossed up insults at Pan-American-minded Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla. Reason: he had failed (they claimed) to protest firmly enough against the attacks by U.S. sailors on Los Angeles zoot suiters of Mexican blood (TIME, June...
...monitors picked up Tokyo's interpretation of U.S. zoot-suit riots: "The zoot-suiters are isolationist fighters. They are strong, courageous young men who have banded together in a nationwide army to express by physical force their disapproval of the war. They are intent on spilling their blood in their own country for their own sacred ideals...
...other parts of the nation, there was also deep trouble. The zoot-suit war between the U.S. sailors and the Mexican pachucos had apparently not been unique...