Word: interhandel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...admission to the bar and his 72nd birthday. A law graduate of George Washington University, Wilson spent his 30s as a U.S. prosecutor and won such a reputation as a litigator that in 1941, soon after returning to private practice, he was retained by the Swiss firm Interhandel to look after its interest in its U.S. subsidiary, General Aniline & Film. In 1942 GAF was confiscated by the U.S. Government because Interhandel was believed to be a front for the German cartel I.G. Farben. It was while the "little American" worked on this affair (in which he finally...