Word: prosecutors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trial in Reggio Emilia last week Poetess Leonarda gripped the witness-stand rail with oddly delicate hands and calmly set the prosecutor right on certain details. Her deep-set dark eyes gleamed with a wild inner pride as she concluded: "I gave the copper ladle, which I used to skim the fat off the kettles, to my country, which was so badly in need of metal during the last days...
...Japanese war criminals, clutching ribboned copies of their indictment, shuffled into court like schoolboys carrying their primers to class. In the shadow of reckoning and doom, they giggled and gossiped. In the role created by Robert Jackson, U.S. Chief Prosecutor Joseph B. Keenan was pushing a sober trial of "crimes against peace" and "crimes against humanity." But Prosecutor Kee nan (who looks like W. C. Fields) had to deal with the opéra bouffe element which the West so often finds in the Japanese character. The chief Jap defendant, Hideki Tojo, picked his nose unconcernedly and flirted with...
Meanwhile Prosecutor Gerald K. O'Brien was unable to discover one instance of threat or intimidation in the teamsters' relations with the merchants. Said Hoffa: "We contributed something around $3,000 ... [to O'Brien's campaign fund]. We don't expect any favors. We ask simply that the law be interpreted as it is written...
Cried Hoffa: "The strike is on." At week's end, teamsters' pickets ringed the loading docks at the wholesale houses. But Hoffa's organizers now faced the sweaty business of riding after individual, dodging dogies. Republican Mayor Edward J. Jeffries ignored the prosecutor and asked that a charge of extortion be filed against the teamsters on behalf of a butcher named Bonkovitch. Detroit's editors were acting as though they had a burr in their pants. So was many a citizen. Labor baiting was rampant everywhere...
...courtroom was spellbound during the three hours of his eager confession. Said a British prosecutor: "A fine speech." Said a Russian colonel: "I am amazed." "It's more than I expected from the ugly one," said Keitel (who had tried to place all responsibility on Hitler). Goring (who had boldly admitted his guilt) sneered at Keitel: "At least one more of us has some guts...