Japanese Social Customs Continue Crumbling Away
Review of Stewart H. Holbrook's DREAMERS OF THE AMERICAN DREAM, 1957, praising its panoramic account of American dreamers. The Tokyo wedding section notes postwar shifts in Japanese marriage, from arranged to dating, including two college graduates Kazuo Kiryu and Reiko Shimizu choosing to marry for shared study time and companionship.
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Stewart H. Holbrook
New York
Doubleday
William Allen White
KSTC
Emporia
Holbrook
Tokyo
Japan
United States
Kazuo Kiryu
Reiko Shimizu
John Humph
Grey Noyes
Billy Clark
Temperance Society
Ethan Allen
Frances Wright
Amazons
Dorothea Dix
Dorothy Dix
Big Bill Haywood
Mr. Holbrook
Jis
America
Southern city reps meet on racial bombing wave
In Jacksonville representatives from 20 southern cities met to discuss racial bombings that have hit five cities. Mayor Haydon Burns invited others to send delegates, boosting a reward fund to 19510 with contributions from Jacksonville Birmingham and Jewish War Veterans. Incidents cited include a synagogue and a Negro school in several locations and a pool of cases under national pursuit.
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Haydon Burns
Jacksonville
Birmingham
Burns
Nashville
Tenn
Montgomery
Ala
Verdi
Syna
Fla
NAACP Pushes to Extend School Integration in Arkansas
NAACP leader Daisy Bates in Detroit outlined hopes to extend integration after a federal court decision. She urged progress in Little Rock where eight Negro students attend Central High and plans to enroll Negro children in Hall High and Technical High School this fall if the court rules favorably.
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Detroit
Advancement of
Little Rock
Ark
Jboard
Feders
Daisey Bates
Oral Court
Arkansas Naacp
Little Rock High
Tral High School
Bates
Hall High
Technical High School
Yelegrim
Arranged marriage sparks debate in Japan and murder trial outcomes
In Tokyo Kazuo Jang and Reiko reflect on changes from the new Japanese constitution stressing human rights. A London court hears Edith Chubb, accused in a fatal kitchen incident, and a Portland union caves to a contract extension without raises for 45,000 IWA members after a brief wage struggle.
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Reiko
Japan
London
Kazuo
Edith Daisy Chubb
Diences
Old Baileys
Reiki
Jang Kazuo
Chubb
Tore
Portland
Ore
International Woodworkers of America
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Frances E. Willard
Henry George
Lucy Stone
Amelia Bloomer
Samuel Howe
Eugene V. Debs
E John Noyes
Josiah Warren
John Fowler
Sylvester Graham
John Gough
Carrie Nation
Carrie Chapman Catt
NAACP
Garden City Telegram
West ChestNut
Southwest
Q Gity
Kansas
Cream
F&p
LCA
Miss Muffet
Wisconsin
Perr
Kingsford
Tant
Caan
Eve
Cudahy
Dellon
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