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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time wore on, the first hasty $25 million estimate of damage dropped to $15 million. And the casualty list seemed miraculously light...
Many of the letters list detailed complaints about administration by U.S. occupation officials. One writer, a former member of the Nazi Party, attacks both de-nazification procedures and the Nuremburg Trials. "Teachers. . . are one of the greatest injustices in Germany by the law against Nazlism. This law is undemocratic. Our best teachers were dismissed because they were only in name of the Nazi Party. Many of them were really adversaries of Nazilsm and were not ashamed in its time to point out the right way, but now they must go because they are of the party...
...Beta Kappa Societies all over the country organized into a National Council of United Chapters so that they could combine their "talents." At this time the long defunct Maryland chapter went on the active list again...
...National League, there was such a shortage of outstanding individual talent that no less than six clubs had a fighting chance for the pennant. The Brooklyn Dodgers were sifting and resifting young farmhands in a frantic search for a first-baseman who could hit. The latest of a long list of aspirants: a big Irishman from the Dodgers' Montreal farm by the name of Chuck Connors...
...Last week the Keeley Institute of Dwight Ill., in a survey of 13,471 alcoholic patients given "the cure" over the past 18 years, found that by occupation, farmers topped its list of drinkers. Others in the top ten, in order: salesmen, merchants, mechanics, clerks, lawyers, foremen and managers, railroaders, physicians, manufacturers...