Word: purkey
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Dates: during 1945-1945
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...Army put a guard on the mine, looked to Washington for instructions. Columnist H. I. Phillips' Army character, "Private Oscar Purkey," expressed G.I. sentiments: "There is more respeck being shown this gold than I ever seen shown human life in this war. . . . Nothing busts down a G.I.'s morale more than to think if he swims the Rhine, walks through fire and risks his life a hundred ways and then finds a lot of dough, he is just getting into a legal problem...