Word: nurnberg
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...make elbowroom for Hero Kirk Douglas. The ostensible hero is Colonel David "Mickey" Marcus, a Jewish graduate of West Point who became New York City's crime-busting commissioner of correction under Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, was a wartime adviser to President Roosevelt and helped to organize the Nurnberg trials. In 1948, after serving as unofficial military adviser to Israel, he became supreme commander of the Israeli armies fighting the Arabs around Jerusalem, was accidentally killed only hours before the U.N. ceasefire...
Genocide? Mitchell's offense was more prosaic-he had simply refused to report for induction-but his defense was far more grandiose. Contending that the U.S. is committing genocide and other crimes against world law in Viet Nam, he cited the Nurnberg war-trial verdicts as an injunction on all citizens to disobey illegal orders from their governments. Mitchell was convicted and sentenced to five years after his first trial in Federal District Court in New Haven, Conn., but the Circuit Court of Appeals threw out the conviction on procedural grounds...
...into several unorthodox but rewarding transactions. While most other banks stood aside, B.F.G. last year purchased several companies left insolvent in the collapse of the Hugo Stinnes industrial empire (TIME, Oct. 18, 1963), is keeping them in operation until they can be resold. When the owner of a huge Nurnberg photographic mail-order house was arrested recently on suspicion of tax fraud, B.F.G. saved his company by putting up more than $2,000,000 to bail him out. By such ventures, the bank has preserved thousands of jobs, also reaped dividends of good will and new accounts in the German...
...help pay his way through Notre Dame and the Union University Law School at Albany, entered the service during World War II, was commissioned a first lieutenant in 1945 and assigned to the Judge Advocate General's war-crimes section, where he was an assistant prosecutor at the Nurnberg trials. Returning to New York, Miller was elected district attorney of Niagara County, and in 1950 won election to the first of his seven terms in the U.S. House of Representatives...
...days before the state committee met, Philadelphia's old-line Democratic organization endorsed Justice Musmanno, 67, a colorful, controversial lawyer who has written eleven books, helped defend Sacco and Vanzetti in their Massachusetts murder trial, was a judge at the Nurnberg war-crimes trials, is so ardent an anti-Communist that he once implored baseball's Cincinnati Reds to change their nickname. With the Philadelphia machine behind him, Musmanno easily wrapped up Dave Lawrence's Pittsburgh fief, won the state committee's endorsement...