Word: internments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Politics voted 22 to 7 in future of supporting the other groups' charges that McCley as High Commissioner commuted the sentences of convicted Nazi War criminals, and that as Assistant Secretary of War, he influenced the U.S. government's decision not to bomb Auschwitz concentration camp and to intern Japanese-Americans...
...amused and appalled by your story on the popularity of pocket paging devices [April 11]. As the wife of a medical intern, I have come to regard this machine as a tiny, tyrannical Santa Claus. It knows when you are sleeping; it knows when you are awake. It also knows when you are about to eat or make love and goes off at the least opportune moment...
Charging that the program's namesake, former Assistant Secretary of War John J. McCloy, supported the decision to intern Japanese Americans during World War II, opposed the bombing of the German concentration camp at Auschwitz, and commuted the death sentences of convicted Nazi war criminals, the letters urge the K-School to change the name of the program...
...putting in twelve-hour days at his Westport, Conn., home or the firm's Manhattan office. "He runs the place with an iron hand," says a former employee. Nonetheless, he has attracted notable talent. Otto Eckstein, the head of Data Resources, an econometric forecasting firm, was a summer intern at Value Line. John Shad, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, also was an employee...
...elderly dying patient seemed to have slipped from life when Dr. George Dunlop, then a surgical intern at Cincinnati General Hospital, stepped in and managed to revive him. The patient, unable to speak, motioned for a pencil and wrote, unforgettably to Dr. Dunlop, "Why did you do this...