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...dust. This was the Great Dust Bowl of the north, where thin-coated sheep could be bought for just $2 apiece and craggy-ribbed cows for only $12. "We couldn't raise a thing, not even weeds-not a thing," recalled North Dakota's U.S. Representative Otto Krueger, a dry-land farmer from Fessenden. "I remember it got so bad, with so many people moving out, that one year I counted 675 quarter-sections of land acquired by the county because they had been abandoned with the taxes left unpaid...
...Texas were beaten only twice, by Texas Christian and Rice. As a senior, Bobby went to work for a new coach: Blair Cherry, who gave him his first lessons in the intricacies of the T. Meanwhile, Bobby had also found time to marry a pretty Texas coed, Carol Ann Krueger, but his first love was still football. Coach Cherry recalls taking Bobby and his wife to the Chicago Cardinal camp in the summer of 1947. "Bobby never forgot for a moment that the purpose of the trip was to learn about the T," says Cherry...
...your Jan. 19 issue, you state that the court-martial which tried Dorothy Krueger Smith for the murder of her husband found her guilty of first-degree murder by six votes to three and sentenced her to life imprisonment; that "a unanimous verdict of guilty would have made the death sentence mandatory." This is not correct. The only offense under the Uniform Code of Military Justice that requires a mandatory death sentence is spying in time of war . . . and the only offense requiring a unanimous finding of guilty is that for which the death penalty is mandatory, namely, spying...
...desk all day, relaxed in the Officers' Club, and was married to a general's daughter: Dorothy Krueger Smith, 40, the only daughter of retired General Walter Krueger, World War II commander of the island-hopping Sixth Army. But to Dorothy Smith, brunette and high-strung, the lot of a conscientious soldier's wife was not a happy one. Monotony unnerved her, loneliness oppressed; she sought excitement in alcohol, forgetfulness in dope. The colonel, she believed, regarded his wife as a clinging handicap to his professional career...
...town with the highest percentage of retired generals in the U.S., treated him to old memories (he had lived there as a boy, and attended Texas Military Academy). General Jonathan Wainwright was on hand, in bemedaled uniform ("How are you, Skinny, you old rascal?"), so was Lieut. General Walter Krueger, General Courtney Hodges...