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    necessary assistance in the execution of his duty, and to appoint as shall be occasion, one or more deputies. Six days after signing the act into law, President...
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    Junius Spencer Morgan III (category People of the Office of Strategic Services)
    become a member of the New York Commandery of the Naval Order of the United States. On December 1, 1941, Morgan was placed on active duty, serving during...
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    The Pirates of Penzance; or, The Slave of Duty is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. Its official...
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    North Sea to the Swiss frontier with France, the position of which changed little except during early 1917 and again in 1918. Between 1915 and 1917 there...
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  • into the sandbar and drowned. Carter received a posthumous Carnegie Hero Award for his rescue efforts. The Birth of a Nation (1915). Future film director...
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    Friedrich Wilhelm von Lindeiner-Wildau (category German prisoners of war in World War II held by the United Kingdom)
    battalion on 27 May 1915. He was again wounded during the pursuit between the Bug River and Jasiolda on 29 August 1915. On returning to duty von Lindeiner-Wildau...
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    Clyde Tolson (category Deputy Directors of the Federal Bureau of Investigation)
    the FBI even after Tolson became too old for police duty and passed the retirement age. After Hoover's death on May 2, 1972, Tolson was briefly the acting...
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    Bill Tilghman (category 1924 murders in the United States)
    1915 film that he directed and starred in as himself. Tilghman died in 1924 at the age of 70 after being shot by a corrupt prohibition agent on the streets...
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    James Roosevelt (category American film producers)
    assumed Howe's duties. Soon after the 1936 re-election of his father, Roosevelt was given a direct commission as a lieutenant colonel in the Marine Corps...
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    proposal, being reluctant to convert to Orthodoxy. But the Kaiser later informed her she had a duty to marry Nicholas and to convert, as her sister Elizabeth...
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