The business world hailed the 1920s as the "New Era, " one with new rules in which the old pattern of cyclical depressions would no longer occur and prosperity would be continuous.

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The pattern that emerges, he says, is of a society wishing to punish those who disobeyed the social rules of the time.

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The office of the US Air Force Inspector General, while confirming the overall pattern of complaints, found no evidence of criminal wrongdoing and concluded that the mortuary officials named had not personally broken rules or regulations.

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