Word: deportation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mayor of Kent, Wash., truck-gardening town near Seattle, which had some 1,600 Japs before the war, had signs printed up: "We Don't Want the Japs Back Here Ever." The mother lodge (15,000 members) of the Fraternal Order of Eagles voted unanimously in Seattle to deport all U.S. Japanese after the war. So did the Portland Progressive Business Men's Club, and the Oregon State Legion. Hardly anyone ever bothered to distinguish between the alien Japanese, who are deportable, and U.S. citizens of Japanese ancestry. A battalion of U.S.-born Japs is fighting well...
Wrote New York Herald Tribune Reporter Bert Andrews: "[The hearing] would have left an uninformed Australian puzzled as to whether America was trying to export Mr. Flynn as a diplomat or deport him as an undesirable." In grey suit and dazzling Charvet tie, which looked like a Dali dream, Ed Flynn denied all charges of graft and malfeasance made against him. Assistant Secretary of State G. Howland Shaw read a prepared statement calling Flynn "qualified," then deftly sidestepped all embarrassing questions. (Q: "Can you think of any poorer qualified man than Flynn?" A: "I am not in a position...
Last week the city of Lucknow engaged a contractor to catch Lucknow's monkeys, alive and unharmed, at the rate of one rupee, four annas (39?) per monkey. The city proposed to deport its monkey population to distant forests by special train. Total estimated cost: 10,000 rupees...
Interrupting, Minnesota's Senator Ernest Lundeen (see p. 17) declared: "I think the gentleman referred to ... should be deported from the United States." Said peppery old Senator Carter Glass of Virginia: ". . . If there is not a law to deport him, he should be deported anyway...
...House of Representatives passed a bill to deport C. I. 0. west coast Maritime Labor Leader Harry Bridges, often accused of being a Communist, found innocent by Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins. Lamented the New York Herald Tribune: "Democracy is not to be defended by imitating the arbitrary legislative devices of despotism...