21
«Week's Doings», Tempe News, 18 April 1942; «Today's Local News», Tempe News, 10 September 1942.
22
In the early stages of the war, several military installations and bases were established in the Phoenix area. Thunderbird Field I, north of Glendale; Thunderbird Field II, north of Scottsdale; and Falcon Field and Williams Air base, near Tempe and Mesa, were among them. See James E. Cook, «Arizona and World War II», Arizona Highways 64 (July 1988): 36-42; 45; Don Dwiggins, «Yesterday At Falcon Field», Arizona Highways 64 (July 1988) 39; Thunderbird Field is now the American Graduate School of International Management. Thunderbird Field II is Scottsdale Municipal Airport. Falcon Field is located in Mesa.
23
Christine Marin, «Mexican Americans On the Home Front: Community Organizations in Arizona During World War II», Perspectives in Mexican American Studies 7 (1993): 83.
24
Conard, 17-18; see also «Interview with Placida Smith. Interviewed by Bess Morton. May 5, 1976». (Phoenix: Phoenix History Project. Arizona Historical Society, 1976) 40.
25
Dennis Chavez Papers. Archive #394. Box 174. Folder 23: «Press Releases, 1942». University of New Mexico. Center for Southwest Research. Albuquerque, New Mexico. My thanks to Rose Diaz, Archivist at the Center for Southwest Research for bringing Senator Chavez's June 14, 1942, speech at the LULAC convention to my attention.
26
Ibid.; Senator Chavez worked tirelessly in helping form the Good Neighbor Policy for Latin America, and during its preparations provided essential assistance to U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull. See: «Senator Dennis Chavez», in Hispanic Heroes: Portraits of New Mexicans Who Made a Difference (Albuquerque: Starlight Publications, Inc., 1992) 12.
27
Conard, 18.
28
«Today's Local News», Tempe News, 1 August 1942.
29
Solliday, 117.
30
«Rally Scheduled for Move to Build Pool for Mexican People», State Press, 3 November 1944. Historian Scott Solliday says that the Mexican and Mexican American community in Tempe was ambivalent about the building of a separate swimming pool for them and afraid to challenge the segregation policy at Tempe Beach for fear of recriminations against them by the city council in the form of taxes. Conversation with Scott Solliday, Tempe, Arizona, January 26, 2000.