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...fiihrer of the German-American Bund, interned by the U.S. as an enemy alien since his parole from a two and a half-to-five-year prison sentence (for stealing Bund funds), was ordered deported to Germany. Naturalized in 1934, his citizenship was canceled in 1943 (he took the oath of allegiance "with mental reservations...
...keeping with Chinese medical ethics (as written by Sun Ssu-miao in the 7th Century A.D.), which are much like those outlined in the Western world's Hippocratic oath, Dr. Chang treats poor patients as carefully as the rich, charges them nothing. His middle-class patients pay about $100,000 Chinese ($200 American) a day. His upper-crust patients pay in largesse of the realm-fine furs and such succulent delicacies as sharks' fins and bears' paws...
...nervously in a brown leather chair. When Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone strode in, Harry Truman rose, clasped a Bible between his hands, stood stiffly underneath Seymour Thomas' portrait of Woodrow Wilson. The clock on the mantel stood at 7:08. It took just one minute for the oath to be administered, and Harry Truman, 60, the neat, slim, spectacled man from Missouri, became the 32nd man to be President of the U.S.† The ceremony over, he lifted the Bible to his lips...
...Administering the oath, Chief Justice Stone called the President: Harry Shippe Truman. Replying, Truman answered: "I, Harry S. Truman. . . ." Although his middle name has for years been printed as "Shippe," his middle initial "S" actually stands for nothing. Explanation: his grandfathers were named Anderson Shippe Truman and Solomon Young; to offend neither, Harry's parents gave him the common initial only...
President Truman quickly assured the world that he intended no basic change in U.S. foreign policy, and the world believed him.* Yet even as he took the oath, the shudder of inevitable change ran through the whole international fabric...