0:00 - Moving to Queens / Neighborhood playmates and activities

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Keywords: baseball; belly stove; children; city government; Czech; families; football; German; hunting; Irish; junkyard; lumber; neighborhood; neighbors; playmates; second generation; sling shots; team sports; third generation; trucking business; wagon

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2:58 - High school classmates' endeavors and accomplishments

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Keywords: acoomplishments; Annapolis; bus; classes; college; crowded; doctor; Elmhurst, Queens; friends; group; junior high; Newtown High School; opera singer; people; Pulitzer Prize; read; scholastic; walk; winners

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4:40 - Attending Princeton University

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Keywords: Anglo-Saxon; athletics; New York City; preparatory school; regents; Rockefeller; social groups; wealth

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10:25 - Fellow Japanese American student at Princeton / Social groups in college

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Keywords: adopted; Lehigh College; preparatory school; Princeton University; residential college; Scottish; social circles

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12:37 - Finance for college

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Keywords: Asiatic market; brother; Great Depression; investing; Japanese companies; Princeton University; prosperity; Saratoga Springs, New York; sister; Skidmore College; stock market; trading companies; Williams College

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15:23 - Studying Economics at Princeton

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Keywords: Asia; business; businessman; cotton trade; economics; export; School of Public and International Affairs; stock market; textiles; thesis; Woodrow Wilson School

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17:28 - Working for Japanese Chamber of Commerce / Joining Army

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Keywords: Army; draft; Japanese Chamber of Commerce; Japanese companies; job; Pearl Harbor; Princeton University; summer; trade statistics; trade status; U.S. Department of Commerce; work

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18:20 - Family's reaction to draft notice / Japanese expansion -- American hostility

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Keywords: Africa; China; Dutch East India Company; embargo; European expansion; Germany; Great Britain; India; Japan; Japanese expansion; Korea; Manchuria; naval agreements; oil; Pearl Harbor; Taiwan

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21:08 - Expecting a war with Japan / Pledging allegiance to the United States

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Keywords: coal; culture; embargo; investments; Manchuria; Princeton University; steel mills; traditions

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23:11 - Draft / Assignment to Fort Dix and 348th Close Artillery Unit

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Keywords: 348th Close Artillery Unit:New York; Ambrose Channel; draft; draftees; Fort Dix; Long Island; New York Harbor; Pearl Harbor; professionals

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25:45 - Shipped to Madison Barracks / Preparations for war/ 666th Battalion

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Keywords: 666th Battalion; American destroyers; Buffalo; clerk; Greenland; Madison Barracks; New York; Pearl Harbor; Polish; President Roosevelt; requisition; Winston Churchill

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27:57 - Shipped to Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont after Pearl harbor / Serving as a surgical technician

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Keywords: Fort Devens; Fort Ethan Allen; hardware store; laundry room; linen; Massachusetts; medics; National Guard; sort; station hospital; surgical technician; Vermont

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