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Wednesday, May 29, 2013

The Adolph Hitler tea kettle

By Jack Brummet, Commerce Ed.

The beleaguered JC Penney company withdrew this kettle today. It caused an international uproar after people decided that it looked like Adolph Hitler. And it kind of does.

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