Word: jurist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Mohammed. In Syria last week Free French General Georges Catroux declared that France's mandate was over, that Syria henceforth would be an independent republic. Named by the Free French as the new republic's first President was a 55-year-old jurist, Mohammed Tageddine el Hassani...
Judge Rosenrnan is a quiet, shy, almost anonymous jurist. Texas-born, Jewish, 45, married, with two sons. He dislikes physical effort, delights in mental exercise. Scholarly, retiring, an easy conversationalist, Rosenman is the President's unofficial speechwriter. Out of 13 years' experience, the President has an absolute respect for Rosenman's judgment, calls him "Sammy the Rose...
...have dined, winedir" by the London Daily Herald's veteran Columnist Hannen Swaffer, Miss Thompson had to install three stenographers and two male social secretaries in her suite at the Savoy to answer mail and arrange engagements. So busy was she that Lady Reading, relict of the late great jurist, was unable to make a date to see her. Later Lady Reading pointedly absented herself from a reception in Miss Thompson's honor...
Lord Gifford, great Scottish jurist, established his lectureship in natural theology with a bequest...
...held constitutional. Behind these scattered but related facts was a story of greed and gold, of political intrigue and the fulfillment of an old vow. One character in the tale was a North Carolina runt, now vanished into a historical footnote; another was a great American jurist who liked yellow-backed French novels and claiity in the law, and who had an eye both for the exact word and for a well-turned ankle...