Word: centralized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three years the victor nations have been trying war criminals. No central agency of any government has an exact record of all the cases, convictions and sentences. The following tabulation is probably fairly accurate. It includes the major German cases at Niirnberg and the "minor"* cases at Dachau; the major Japanese cases at Tokyo (TIME, Nov. 22) and other cases at Yokohama and in China; other cases in the Pacific and Mediterranean theaters...
...order from the general, an orderly brought yellow pears, as large as grapefruit. As we ate, the general traced the Central China battle on the palm of his hand. Twelve miles eastward his old comrade, Lieut. General Huang Po-tao, was encircled in an area 3½ miles in diameter around the rail town of Nienchuang. In eleven days of fighting Huang had lost 40,000 troops. From his position north of the Lunghai railway, General Li was punching east to relieve Huang. In a parallel position south of the railway, Lieut. General Chiu Ching-chuan's Second Army...
...Cidra, high in the mountains of central Puerto Rico, Luis Muñoz Marin was taking it easy. The island's first elected governor had shut himself off from the well-wishers who had turned his town house into a public place. Only for leathery jibaros (farmers) like Eustachio Pérez Guzman was the door still open. Eustachio had vowed that if victory came to the Popular Democratic Party, he would go and kneel before Don Luis. To finance the journey, he had sold two of his six chickens, set out from his remote western hamlet of Isabela...
...four are: Adam Mouzenides, member of the central committee of the Greek Communist Party who Communists claim was killed in action a month before Polk's murder while the Government claims he is still alive in Commun...
...dining halls will operate on Sunday hours over the holiday, with the average menn offering soup, roast turkey and cranberry sauce, peas and potatoes, celery and radishes, Parker House rolls, fruit salad, mince or pumpkin pie, and plum pudding. Pictured at right are three cooks of the Kirkland house central kitchen as they clean up several newly-arrived birds...