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Born in New Jersey when Woodrow Wilson was still governor, the 62-year-old Kennedy Democrat had attended St. Paul's, the College, and the Law School during the height of the Depression. A labor negotiator with a hard-nosed reputation, Cox served in the Solicitor General's Office under Roosevelt in the '40s and on the Wage Stabilization Board under Truman...
...later served from 1961 to 1965 as solicitor general for both Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, demonstrating a diligent loyalty and developing a number of professional and social contacts with career officials in the Justice Department...
...with their hands in the till, but scandal has touched his family. He never denied that in 1972 he used his influence to get the city controller to place millions of dollars worth of city insurance with an obscure suburban agency that employed his son John Patrick as a solicitor. Said Daley: "If a man can't put his arms around his sons and help them, then what's this world coming to?" The mayor has also been embarrassed by the revelation that John Patrick and another son, William, won their insurance brokers' licenses improperly...
...last night's meeting, City Manager James Leo Sullivan said that he had asked the city solicitor for an opinion regarding the legality of the funds transfer. Sullivan said he doubted that the appropriation, without a request for funds from the Housing Authority, is legal...
...Have the City Solicitor determine the legality of the demolition and restaurant permits involved in the case and at the same time ask the respective authorizing boards to revoke the permits...