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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were stacked five deep over sandbars waiting for landings. Tents, fires, laboring men spread along eight miles of riverbank. A trapper's wife opened a coffee shop in a tent. A clothing store sprang up in another. Old prospectors, panning methodically after thawing the frozen ground with fires, found traces of gold dust. But they found nothing else...
...prosecution showed a U.S. -propaganda film, Orders from Tokyo, in which a G.I. pulled a piece of paper from the pocket of a slain Japanese soldier, while the soundtrack intoned: "Orders from Tokyo. We have discovered the secret orders to destroy Manila." In fact, no such orders were ever found, as the defense demonstrated...
Implication. Urged on by a radiogram from MacArthur, the commission closed the trial a little more than a month after it began. By neat timing, they handed down their verdict on the anniversary of Pearl Harbor. They found Yamashita guilty as charged, sentenced him to hang...
...ancestors had fought in every North American war since the Revolution. At one time or another, he had run a chain of banks in Texas, a gas company, a cotton exporting firm, a flour mill, a steel company, a ranch and 38 Mississippi plantations on which he had found...
...maintained and operated exclusively for students of the white race," it would not accept the endowment, said its trustees, if it had to teach the superiority of Anglo-Saxon and Latin American races or bar Jewish students. After that the judge withdrew his offer. Jefferson seemed back where he found it. "The school is operating at a loss," said one of the trustees. "We plan to close ... at the end of the year, under present conditions...