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People, Jul. 25, 1955

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In Washington, the Defense Department announced that, having completed two correspondence courses in 1953 and successfully made his point quota, Vice President Richard M. Nixon had been promoted to the rank of commander in the Naval Reserve.

As a footnote to his other unsavory accomplishments, Adolf Hitler was revealed by Dr. Oron J. Hale, University of Virginia history professor and former U.S. Commissioner for Bavaria, to have been one of modern history's most accomplished tax dodgers. According to Hale, whose study in the American...

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