The US Navy Japanese/Oriental Language School Archival Project

He played a key role in the dismissal of Rita Lavelle, then head of the agency's toxic-waste cleanup fund, who was jailed for lying to Congress. James Haas Scheuer was born in New York on Feb. 6, 1920, the son of a prosperous real estate man. He graduated from the private Ethical Culture Fieldston School, in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. ................
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