Word: jacksons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prosaic observers, the figure thus impeccably attired was not really Civilization, but just a powerful, angry American, name of Robert Jackson, of Jamestown, N.Y. But to the more imaginative (including Jackson) it was Civilization itself which stood at the prosecutor's rostrum, resonantly accusing the 20 Germans in the dock of vile assault & battery on all mankind...
...making and other offenses against humanity were not illegal when committed. Prosecutor Jackson's answer: "If there is no law now under which to try these people, it is about time the human race made some...
...Only victor nations were represented on the bench. Prosecutor Jackson's answer: "Either the victors must judge the vanquished or we must leave the defeated to judge themselves. After the first World War, we learned the futility of the latter course...
...Judge, ex-Attorney General Francis Biddle; Prosecutor, Justice Robert Houghwout Jackson...
Millions of Americans know Caspar Milquetoast as well as they know Tom Sawyer and Andrew Jackson, better than they know George F. Babbitt, and any amount better than they know such world figures as Mr. Micawber and Don Quixote. They know him, in fact, almost as well as they know their own weaknesses...