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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Michael was not a coward. He had been decorated in the Albanian campaign and remembered what the front in northern Greece was like. Now he had better things to do. He had inherited Greece's largest department store and had settled down in a luxurious apartment with his attractive wife and a young daughter. So, when he was called up a few months ago, he devised a plan. He located a former employee, now destitute and suffering from tuberculosis, supplied him witha forged identity card and paid him $1,500 to appear as Michael Chryssicopoulos before an army medical...
...division of History Government, and Economics was mainly responsible for the selection of January 3 aa the day starting Generals. Since this division gives the largest number of the exams, it wants as much time as possible for grading. It has, therefore, traditionally been given first call on a date. As one Economics official stated: "We always have our Generals on the first two days of reading period, and we don't see any reason why we should change...
Harvard's "largest non-political organizations," the Outing Club, has plans for a broad winter program which includes weekend ski trips, skating parties, walking trips, mountain climbing, and cave exploring...
...ransom bills, the technique was always much the same: to determine the size of the gangster's loot, then match it against his income-tax returns. By 1940, Irey had uncovered $476,573,129 in tax deficiencies (the Philadelphia Inquirer's late Publisher Moe Annenberg made the largest single contribution to the Treasury: $8,000,000). At one time nearly two-thirds of all federal prisoners were men jailed as a result of Irey's patient, adding-machine methods...
...next largest donation went to the America Cancer Society. Students earmarked $2,549 for this charity...