Word: coxes
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Archibald Cox, Royall Professor of Law, has already been appointed Solicitor General...
...Archie Cox served as clerk to famed Jurist Learned Hand after graduating from Harvard Law School, wandered between private practice and Government work (including tours as an attorney with the Justice and Labor Departments) before joining the Harvard faculty in 1945. A brilliant, ever-questioning teacher of labor law, Cox took time off in 1952 to serve as chairman of Harry Truman's Wage Stabilization Board but resigned in protest after four months when Truman overruled one of his wage recommendations. After the labor bill battle he became a Kennedy enthusiast, took leave from his Harvard chair (the Royall...
Archibald Cox, 48, Solicitor General. Ever present at Senator John Kennedy's side during the 1958-59 congressional battles over a labor reform bill was a trim, crew-cut law professor whom North Carolina's grumpy Graham Barden dubbed "that nit picker from Harvard." Shy, witty
Another Kennedy selection from the University was Archibald Cox, Royall Professor of Law, as Solicitor General. In this post Cox will have two primary duties: First, he will be the government's lawyer in the Supreme Court of the United States, and thus will be responsible for all cases in the Court dealing with the federal government. Second, when the government loses a case in a primary court, Cox must make the decision whether or not to appeal the outcome to a higher court...
...Cox's previous association, both with the office he will soon hold and with the man who appointed him to it, are extensive. The United States' leading expert on labor law, he worked under the Solicitor General during World War II, before coming to Harvard as a lecturer on law and as a full professor...