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...Appointed Charles Fahy, general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, to be Assistant Solicitor General...
...manage this vast registration, Solicitor General Francis Biddle summoned a fellow Philadelphian, Earl Grant Harrison, 41. Mr. Harrison left a wife, three children and a lucrative law practice to help his Government, expects to wind up his job in six months. He anticipates little trouble with recalcitrants, but, just in case, he dropped the reminder that failure to register carries a $1,000 fine and six months in jail...
...busy as he used to be now that the emphasis is off new reforms, but still on call. Tommy Corcoran is the decisive, ruthless doer. Example: he recently arranged the shift of alien control from coddly Fanny Perkins' Labor Department to the control of Bob Jackson and Solicitor General Francis Biddle. Smart, loyal Mr. Biddle is a Jackson libertarian who seldom sees the President, but writes many a memo for him and his counselors, and is already swatting at Wendell Willkie. Public relations adviser to the President is ardent New Dealer Lowell Mellett, onetime Scripps-Howard editor, newest member...
Most ambitious work of the evening was a "ballad poem" for narrator, contralto, white and Negro choirs and orchestra: And They Lynched Him on a Tree. Poet Katherine Garrison Chapin (Mrs. Francis Biddle, wife of the U. S. Solicitor General) wrote the words; the music was by shy, devout Negro William Grant Still, who inscribed his score: "Humble thanks to God, the source of inspiration." Composer Still's inspiration often ran to obvious, ear-catching effects, but it kept pace with Mrs. Biddle's ballad: an evocation of Negroes gathering in a pine clearing after the white folks...
Katz came to Harvard last fall from the U. S. Solicitor General's office...