Word: jacksons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British lawyers smiled. The Russians shrugged; such naiveté was just one more thing they did not understand about Americans. But the Russians were not surprised when Harris went on to make a highly effective argument. They have be come openly enthusiastic about the way Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson and his assistants are conducting the U.S. case against the Nazis...
...Wilbur Wright died of typhoid, not pneumonia, as TIME had said. A brief dissertation on the subject of Cain's wife led to a longer one on Calvin Coolidge's mistaking (in a speech) a hit by Baseball's Walter Johnson for an error by Shortstop Jackson. ED. agreed that it would be silly to choose a Chief Executive for his knowledge of baseball...
That Justice Robert Jackson had made a great speech when he opened the Nürnberg trial, the world already knew. Just how great it was the world saw more clearly last week when Sir Hartley William Shawcross, Britain's Attorney General, opened the case for the British prosecution. Sir Hartley is one of Britain's most brilliant jurists. His day-long speech was an impressive, tightly logical, exhaustive dissertation. Yet rarely did it match Jackson's bold attempt to find law in ultimate source-the principles of men- rather than in statute, treaty, precedent...
...American had probed beneath surface technicalities. To him, the violation of international treaties was an aggravating circumstance; the German invasion of Poland would have been a crime without it?. German-Polish non-aggression pact. The treaties' existence was important to Jackson chiefly as a symptom that the world's conscience had begun to view aggression and war as evils that must be punished. Said he: "Plain people ... revolted at such fictions [as war's legality] and legalisms so contrary to ethical principles, and demanded checks on war immunity...
...World, Samuel Hopkins Adams; The Middle Span: Vol. II, Persons and Places, George Santayana; Mozart-His Charactcr. His Work, Alfred Einstein; Black Boy, Richard Wright; The Young Jefferson, Claude G. Bowers; The Unquiet Grave, Cyril Connolly; Woodrow Wilson and the Great Betrayal, Thomas A. Bailey; The Age of Jackson, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.; Saints and Strangers, George F. Willison; One Who Survived, Alexander Barmine; Lincoln, the President, J. G. Randall...