Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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* Major Eugene P. Boardman, U.S.M.C., an official interpreter at last winter's trial of Lieut. General Tomoyuki Yamashita, reported later in the Marine Corps Gazette: "[A military commission] was directed to follow rules of procedure created specifically for the trial of war criminals. . . . Acceptable as evidence was hearsay and...
Winding up its third meeting last week at Lake Success, ECOSOC had a hatful of recommendations for the General Assembly, which convenes on Oct. 23. Mostly they concerned such matters as world health, narcotics control, an International Refugees Organization. Russian intransigence blocked a U.S.-favored proposal for a central commission...
Germany's Russian-controlled press replied with similar charges about the Western zones, but when the U.S. and Britain suggested an investigation commission to check on arms production in all zones, the Russians refused. After interminable wrangling, they finally agreed to the proposal last week. The commission plans to...
Some doctors believe .that, of all the weapons against cancer now being forged, the most promising is atomic energy. A top-rank U.S. cancer specialist, Dr. Cornelius Packard Rhoads, director of Manhattan's Memorial Hospital, summed up the reasons why, in a report to the United Nations Atomic Energy...
"Is it any less a crime for a Public Bureau or Commission to divert the substance of Peter to buy the vote of Paul than it is for some Kreuger to convert the assets of a publicly held corporation to personal use?