Word: prosecutors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that strangers be able to give a good account of themselves. Susan's account, including her admittedly phony name, was not good enough for the easily irritated Jersey cops. But Susan was as stubborn as they were. After she had been in jail 23 days, Assistant Prosecutor Stephen Toth Jr. tried to reason with her. But Susan, whose description and fingerprints had been sent to the FBI and all state police, claimed that her right name was her own affair. She was heartless, the sheriff said...
...quiet Swarthmore College one night last week, 0. (for Oet je) John Rogge, special assistant to the U.S. Attorney General and prosecutor of the hapless 1944 Washington sedition trials, raked over a few coals concerning Nazi wartime intrigue in U.S. politics...
...like an inflated pouter pigeon, moved majestically into the court, impeccably garbed in his uniform and highly shellacked helmet. His bow to the judges as they entered was one of the sights of Nürnberg. He loved to pen little notes: "The American Colonel invites the distinguished French prosecutor and his staff to accompany him to a baseball game...
John Dillinger, most famed modern badman, beat a rap twelve years after he was shot dead. The prosecutor's office in Lake County, Indiana, was just getting around to dismissing an old murder indictment against...
Postscript. This fanciful turnabout was answered last week by U.S. Chief Prosecutor Robert Jackson, in an address before the University of Buffalo. Jackson declared that the trial's fundamental justification lay in its attempt to outlaw aggressive war and to destroy "the old theory that international law bears on states and not on statesmen [shielded by] 'sovereignty.' . . ." He reasserted his belief that this interpretation was actually implicit in existing international law, which the Allies had merely strengthened. Said he: "At all events, whether they be regarded as an innovation or a codification, those principles are law today...