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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, the "Secret" report of Deputy Commissioner Dwyer had broken loose in the Boston Post. The American also procured large sections of that document, and printed it in installments. Just how these newspapers got hold of the report was never revealed, but it made sensational reading. There were "Shocking revelations" of homosexual activities at Framingham, where laws were "flouted" and the state of Massachusetts "mocked." The report claimed that discharged inmates who had formed: emotional attachments" at Framingham were allowed to return for weeks at a time. In his charges against Dr. Van Waters, the Commissioner included such a case...
...counterattacking Germans on the Normandy beachhead had picked up a complete copy of the U.S. V Corps' invasion plan. If the Germans on the spot had known what to do about it, he said, "the entire outcome of the war might have been different." As it was, the document took a month traveling leisurely up through channels to Field Marshal von Rundstedt's headquarters. "By that time," said Huebner, "the plan made a nice souvenir...
Seldom since the war had a diplomatic document been drafted in greater secrecy. For more than six months, in Washington and London, experts of seven nations, like diligent sculptors, had chipped away at it behind closed doors. They were still not ready to unveil their handiwork, the North Atlantic Alliance. But last week, the State Department started a sales campaign to tell the U.S. what its general form would be. To newsmen, the department handed out a 4,000-word brochure, titled "Building the Peace-Collective Security in the North Atlantic Area...
...document, written in answer to the Council's detailed statement on the charges against him, contains "a refutation of the two most important charges, a refutation of the four least important charges," a listing of 89 minor points with which he "finds himself at variance," a claim that the entire Council action was illegal, and a final summing...
...Chicago publicity man named James Mangan announced that he had founded a new "sovereign power . . . known as the nation of Celestial Space." He presented a fancy document to the Cook County Recorder, staking out a claim to "space in all directions . . . specifically exempting . . . every celestial body, whether star, planet, satellite or comet . . ." Then he debated selling chunks of space as big as the earth, for a dollar each...