Word: experts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kind of work that friendly, unassuming Philip Jessup had been tackling ably but not dramatically most of his adult life. Jessup served overseas in World War I in the infantry, spent his next 20 years becoming an expert on international law. As a professor of international law and diplomacy at Columbia, he worked hard at the theory of law among nations, learned the frustrating practical side of it as assistant solicitor to the State Department, and as an aide to tough old Elihu Root at Geneva. He was assistant secretary general of the first Council session of UNRRA, played...
Indonesian Expert...
...Keep This Up." Loud-mouthed Communist-line Congressman Vito Marcantonio took the witness stand. He was offered by the defense as an "expert," but he did none of his usual screaming; he was bothered by a cold. No such ailment handicapped pint-sized Lawyer Harry Sacher, who looks like a Dead End Kid. In a bullfrog's voice he insinuated at one point that Judge Medina was prejudicing the trial. Medina said icily: "You and your colleagues have obviously adopted new techniques by which, instead of the defendants being tried, the court and all its members are the ones...
...father of general semantics was born in 1879-the same year, he likes to point out, as Einstein and Stalin. The son of a Polish mathematician, he served through World War I in the Russian Army, was wounded, finally got sent to the U.S. as an artillery expert. Later, he mortgaged his estate, and spent the rest of his fortune, and more than ten years, writing the knotty 800-page bible of general semantics, Science and Sanity...
Cocaine and morphine are among the many drugs which the Communists could have used, according to the Medical School expert. Since a dose of these drugs can last seven or eight hours, they would be just as effective in wringing an oral confession from the Cardinal in an open court as in forcing a signed confession, Krayer stated...