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...sent City Solicitor Anne X. Alpern to the courts to get an injunction forbidding the strike on the ground that the city's welfare was involved. One minute before George's deadline, Judge Walter P. Smart, a Democrat, forbade the strike, ordered top officials of the company's complicated hierarchy* to sit down with George. But the injunction only postponed the showdown. George called the injunction a mere "scrap of paper," struck anyhow...
...bosses and Mrs. Roosevelt got together in a traditionally smoke-heavy private dining room of Albany's Hotel DeWitt Clinton the night before the convention. To satisfy the A.L.P. and P.A.C. they picked slender, sharp-faced Henry Epstein, onetime State Solicitor General and a member of P.A.C.'s national executive committee, for a 14-year State Court of Appeals judgeship. To add a bit of luster to the slate, they drafted Albany's 36-year-old Mayor Erastus Corning II, an ex-G.I. and Yaleman, for Lieutenant Governor...
...soliciters for the Harvard Food Relief Committee will give to contributors a printed receipt, containing a serial number, the sum of the donation, and the signature of the solicitor. Students are warned not to give cash to anyone who cannot give them an official receipt...
Harold Ickes made Hastie an assistant solicitor in the Interior Department. In 1937 Franklin Roosevelt named him U.S. District Judge in the Virgin Islands, the first Negro ever to sit on the Federal bench. As civilian aide to War Secretary Stimson in 1941, William Hastie pushed and prodded for Negro recognition in the services, finally got the War Department to set up the 99th (all-Negro) Fighter Squadron. Two years later, disillusioned over the Army's persistent segregation policy, he resigned...
Ribbentrop. "In London . . . a bouncing bounder. . . . Here he is now, changed surprisingly into a meek person like a family solicitor, with disordered hair, pursed lips and large spectacles...