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...tactful double knock aroused Vag from his delicious reverie. He laid aside his copy of the latest New Yorker, and the physics text reposing beneath it in his lap, and lumbered towards the door. Probably another solicitor. His friends didn't tap on the door; they banged on it. Well, he had made short work of that Student Council fellow last night, and he felt prepared to face any attack on his privacy and purse this evening...
...careful handling of the dynamite-packed TVA investigation in 1938 he was rewarded in 1939 with a judgeship in the Circuit Court of Appeals. There he might have stuck for a lifetime, wrapped in Biddle dignity. But when the opening came he dived off again to become Solicitor General...
...come to New York for stimulation," said Poet Katherine Biddle, wife of the U.S. Solicitor General. "Washington has such a sleepy climate. It's hard to work there. I wonder that the Government people get anything done...
...Saroyan, operates under what is virtually a Government charter. The Company's chairman, distinguished Author James Boyd (Drums, Marching On), pointed out that he is a dollar-a-year man with the Department of Justice, had shaped up The Free Company on official advice from his good friend Solicitor General Francis Biddle...
...other 1918 participants were scattered or dead. Solicitor General John W. Davis, to whose reputation the case had added, had long since become dean of conservative lawyers. Hammer served five terms in Congress, died in 1930. The Dagenharts had dropped from sight; last heard from them was in 1924 when Reuben Dagenhart, then aged 20, told Scripps-Howard Reporter Lowell Mellett (now a Presidential assistant, see p. 52): "I guess I'd been a lot better off. . . . Look at me! One hundred five pounds, a grown man and no education. . . . The years I've put in the cotton...