Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Better known in North Carolina than he was in Washington, General Royall left a $50,000 law practice in Goldsboro, N.C. in June 1942, to take a colonelcy and an assignment as chief of the Army Service Forces' Legal Section. Appointed by the President, he served as counsel for the eight German saboteurs-a job which, as a professional, he thoroughly enjoyed. Afterwards he sank back into the obscurity of the ASF's Legal Section, until Henry Stimson discovered him and made him his special assistant...
...peace-loving peoples of all nations." A handful of reporters in the State Department's press room took cursory notes. Photographers snapped a few pictures. The Secretary of State signed a bulky, historic document. In two minutes it was all over, and the United Nations Organization was a legal reality...
...civilians and brass hats, drawing into the firm such men as regular Navyman Admiral Richard S. Edwards, on the one hand, and brilliant H. (for Herman) Struve Hensel, also a graduate of Princeton, ex-Wall Street attorney, on the other. Roosevelt lifted Hensel out of the Navy's Legal Department into an Assistant Secretaryship. There are many and various men around him: Artemus L. Gates, onetime Yale football captain, Navy pilot in World War I, ex-president of the New York Trust Co., a passionate airman and Forrestal's under secretary; political-minded John L. Sullivan...
...enormity of the case, the nauseating precision of its bestial details, were almost too much for the mechanism of British legal procedure. But the mechanism worked. The five British officers on the bench, and the learned judge advocate in grey wig and black robe, were dry-voiced and calm. Chief Prosecutor Colonel T. M. Backhouse worked his way through a maze of atrocities with a minimum of emotion (on the trial's tenth day, he went straight from the courtroom to officiate at a wedding...
...Froebel High School, Gary, Ind., which Negroes have attended for 30 years, 500 white boys & girls struck for a Jim Crow school. After ten days, their numbers had swelled to over 800. The Gary school board ordered "legal action" against parents of all strikers, dismissal of any striker 16 or over. Said the Gary Parent-Teachers Association: "We feel ashamed. . . . [The strike is] the work of some unknown organizers of racial hatred...