Word: jacksons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rnberg, or the seeming lack of it, worried many a worrier. Nobody had formulated the doubts very well. But they existed: Justice Jackson's whole statement to the Court was an attempt to meet them. He bluntly said that the charter of the Nürnberg tribunal, completed three months after V-E day, was the ex-post-facto law on which the trials were based. He cited some precedents for the master charge (the unratified Geneva Protocol of 1924, the Kellogg-Briand Pact, various League of Nations declarations treated aggressive war as an international crime). But, with more...
...Ultimate Step. Prosecutor Jackson defended this pragmatic approach on the pragmatic ground that the end justified the only practicable means. In the prosecution view, the object of Nurnberg was not merely to punish these particular offenders, but to evolve from their trials a body of effective international law against all aggressive war. Said Jackson...
Last week they found their man, balding, able Samuel Dillon Jackson, 50, ex-Senator (for ten months) from Indiana. An infantry captain in World War I, he has a small city background of church elder and 33rd-degree Mason. A good mixer and orator, he likes to "pull the cork up in their throats at least once...
...picked by National Chairman Robert Hannegan to preside, did his bit for the Hannegan-Hague-Kelly steamroller. After the first ballot for Vice President-on which Henry Wallace had a lead-he promptly called for ballot No. 2, giving Wallace supporters no chance to regroup. One result: Jackson was an early caller at the White House when President Harry Truman moved...
When he took over his new $50,000-a-year job, new Czar Jackson carefully explained that he was not fronting for a lobby or pressure group. But traders did not think that his friendship with President Truman was a handicap...