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DG: Were there some personal cases at all that you remember? What did you start to deal with after the war, was there evacuation claims and things like that? Was, was that right away or?

TS: No, that came later. We started to process the evaluation claims and applications for naturalization as a United States citizens.

DG: So when did you first open your office? What year was that?

TS: Well that would be 1945.

DG: So you already passed the bar by then?

KS: '46.

DG: '46.

TS: '46, yeah.

KS: But he opened the office as an insurance office.

DG: Oh, okay. And then so it wasn't until the '50s that you started processing these others.

TS: That's correct.

DG: So they were more just routine personal things.

TS: Nothing earth, earthshaking that I can remember.

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