Word: jurists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...another bigwig to re-enact the ceremony. To the tiny town of San Nicolás de los Arroyos traveled the presidential train, complete with what Buenos Aires correspondents nicknamed "the candidates' coach." Aspirants in next year's presidential elections, including longtime Foreign Minister Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Jurist Leopoldo Melo, onetime President General Agustin P. Justo and Castillo-favorite Guillermo Rothe, eyed one another warily...
DEATH TURNS THE TABLES-John Dickson Carr-Harper ($2). A capital battle of wits between gruff old Dr. Fell and a nimble adversary over who killed the rapscallion fiancé of an English jurist's daughter. Doesn't quite come off, but good reading for those who like the puzzle type of story...
...General Mihailovich proper honors; they made him Minister of War. At the same time General Dusan Simovich, who led last winter's revolt against the pro-Axis compromises of Regent Prince Paul, was succeeded as Premier by dwarfish, dynamic Slobodan Jovanovich, 72, a liberal, gifted historian and jurist who may be expected to harmonize all anti-Axis Yugoslav elements, Serb, Croat and Slovene...
...forces in Honolulu were "not on the alert." Next President Roosevelt appointed a five-man board to investigate the Pearl Harbor debacle. To head the board he named Owen Josephus Roberts, 66, Associate Supreme Court Justice, last survivor of the Old Court, a broad-shouldered, broad-gauge jurist who first won national fame by his Teapot Dome prosecution...
...Holmes-Pollock Letters ($7.50), the mellow, witty, 58-year correspondence between the late great U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes and British Jurist Sir Frederick Pollock; which might just as well have been published any other year...