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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more game has been added to the Crimson football schedule to complete the list at an even eight games. Boston University will be the opponent on September 24, the week after the Brown game, at Soldiers Field. Another game has also been scheduled for the B team: Worcester Academy will play here on October 27. Coached temporarily by Freshman mentor Dave McKelvey in the absence of head coach Walter Holman, the B.U. Terriers will field an all-civilian squad against the half-and-half Crimson team...
...there a list of war criminals?" "Somebody else is handling that." Confusion or Discretion? The leftist U.S. press hollered that MacArthur's occupation decisions indicated confusion, lack of planning and softness toward the Japs. He was charged with preserving the hated Kempeitai (thought-control police), permitting provocative statements in the Tokyo press. It boiled down to: "The wily Japanese are making monkeys...
...already made hara-kiri preparations, ignominiously and hastily shot himself below the heart with a 32-calibre pistol. Given a 50-50 chance to live, he cried: "I want to die." His death would be only a beginning. In Manila Colonel Alva Carpenter was preparing a war-criminals list running into thousands of names. Prison-camp atrocities (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) spurred preparations for punishing the guilty. What ever the shortcomings of the U.S. Regular Army brass might be, lack of esprit de corps was not among them. The war-crimes provisions of the surrender would be enforced by men raging...
Vidkun Quisling sobbed at the thought of Vidkun Quisling. In lachrymose lethargy, he listened as Attorney Henrik Bergh last week pleaded his hopeless case, tried to list his virtues. But even the conscientious lawyer had a hard time finding virtues in Quisling...
...Reconversion Boss Snyder is far from satisfied with the Navy program. When the Navy first came in with a list of 5,578 planes, he sent it back for pruning. Before OWMR is through, the order may be slashed to 2,654 planes. If Army & Navy plans go through, the industry can count on Government orders of some $87,000,000 a month for the next 22 months, in addition to civilian orders already on hand. For these reasons planemakers were far cockier about the future than they had expected to be a month...