Sarah Lim: Merced's 'Mixing Bowl' -- Greek immigrants left mark in early 1900s Merced Sun-Star In his address at Courthouse Park, Taft celebrated the American melting pot by saying, "We have Englishmen, Germans, Frenchmen, Scotchmen, Irishmen, Bohemians, Hungarians, Italians and Greeks, and we have shaken them all up in a bowl and we have ... |