Word: minors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cargo of the week. Aboard the sleek Nazi submarine, which may have been headed for Japan, were: 1) cold-eyed, natty Lieut. General Ulrich Kessler of the German air force; 2) a mysterious civilian in a wrinkled raincoat and baggy suit, clutching a bulging cardboard suitcase; 3) two minor Luftwaffe officers and five German naval officers and technicians; 4) some interesting metal dispatch boxes apparently full of papers and armament blueprints. Missing were the bodies of two unnamed Japanese who committed harakiri when surrender was ordered. Explained the Navy: the Germans tossed their dead allies overboard...
...year, civil war has raged in remote Sinkiang (Chinese Turkestan). News of the conflict has been scanty but persistent. On the surface, it looked like a minor revolt of nomadic Moslem tribesmen against their Chinese overlords...
...Voice makes it plain that these are minor difficulties. With a serene and sometimes hypnotic eye, he insists that his attorneys have a perfect defense-church members have no employer but God, thus are plainly outside the jurisdiction of things like...
...Minor figures whose crimes had been committed against the people of occupied nations should be tried in and by those nations (as provided in the Moscow declaration...
...Chamber's Clark Haynes Minor confined himself to a plea for the pacts (i.e. for lowered tariffs), because they have been "beneficial to the U.S." The C.I.O.'s bearded Jacob S. Potofsky, secretary-treasurer of Amalgamated Clothing Workers, stole the show with his eloquent argument. Said...