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Said one woman: "The most awful thing was the Steinhaus, where the Russians questioned us. Then there was the Karzer [dungeon]. If you took a carrot into the barracks, you got eight days Karzer. There you slept without a blanket and got food every other...
...presided over a stern nonrecognition doctrine when Japan seized Manchuria in 1931, declared that the U.S. should certainly support the Chinese Nationalists and, if necessary, provide naval protection for Formosa. He was seconded on naval support by Ohio's Senator Taft, who last September had voted against the blanket Military Assistance Program for Europe and parts of Asia...
...laborer. During the Nazi invasion in World War II he fled Paris, lost all his belongings. Because of bureaucratic technicalities he received none of the allotments for war victims. Le Monde's reporter described Duval's home: "One icy cell, then another. One large iron bed, a blanket thin like blotting paper. No sheets, no table, no chairs . . . The walls -when you touch them, your hands come away...
...Swanson butter, 1 lb. Crosse & Blackwell plum pudding, 1 lb. Welch's orange marmalade, 1 lb. Sun-Maid raisins, 1 lb. Uncle Ben's rice, 1 lb. Co-op coffee and 1 can-opener) to the $10 layette packages (including 1 doz. diapers, 1 crib blanket, 1 receiving blanket, 2 kimonos, 2 nursing bottles, 4 nipples, 1 pkg. safety pins...
...Army supplied only a plain blanket for the presidential lap (instead of the electric blanket furnished by the Navy last year), and the electric foot warmer did not work. But Harry Truman cheerfully hammed a few appropriate poses for photographers, oohed and aahed like any common citizen at the power of Army's football team (see SPORT). "I enjoyed it but it was a little one-sided," commented old artilleryman Truman before he left for home...