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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...adult life. Jessup served overseas in World War I in the infantry, spent his next 20 years becoming an expert on international law. As a professor of international law and diplomacy at Columbia, he worked hard at the theory of law among nations, learned the frustrating practical side of it as assistant solicitor to the State Department, and as an aide to tough old Elihu Root at Geneva. He was assistant secretary general of the first Council session of UNRRA, played a part in the birth of U.N. at San Francisco. Last year Harry Truman made him deputy U.S. representative...
...Indonesia, the showdown last fall on Berlin. After Lawyer Jessup had demolished Lawyer Vishinsky in the Berlin debate with a damning, well-documented indictment of Russian policy (TIME, Oct. 18, 1948), one Western European delegate commented admiringly: "That was the best presentation I've heard from the American side in the three years we've been going." Secretary Acheson would like to have a whole task force of roving negotiators like Philip Jessup...
Regularity Counts. County Judge Harry Truman took a fancy to the youngster. When Senator Truman headed up the War Investigating Committee, he sent for Boyle to be his assistant counsel. In 1944 Boyle was called in again to help ailing Bob Hannegan run the Roosevelt-Truman campaign. On the side-the patronage boss gets no pay-he makes an unspectacular but comfortable living practicing law in Washington...
Stockholm police cut short the Hungarian victory celebration to chip off a little more glory. They nabbed husky, blonde Gizi Farkas, three times world champion Ping-Pongstress. As with her other compatriots, Gizi's excursion this side of the Iron Curtain was an occasion for stocking up on nylons, watches, lighters-all the paraphernalia of the bourgeois West. She was so awe-struck at the sight of Swedish abundance that she had bagged a handsome wool jacket without paying for it. "I've never seen such a beautiful thing before," she admitted. "I just couldn't resist...
...affidavits should be thrown out. It has no part in our framework of labor relations. If a strike is established to be a conspiracy against the government, other laws are sufficient to handle it. Another measure that will need examination is the question of political action by unions: one side argues that such action is an integral part of union policy today, the other that no union member should be required to support a policy he may not agree with...