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...Come, Edith," he called. "Hurry up, I want you to come and talk to my solicitor about that cat of yours...
...Wilson Administration, his fellow North Carolinian, Josephus Daniels, got him a job as Assistant Attorney General. A year later Lawyer Biggs retired to private practice in North Carolina, made a great success as an eloquent pleader before small-town juries. When Roosevelt was elected, Mr. Biggs aspired to be Solicitor General but, unlike many another, he did not set himself up as a rival of the potent and popular Professor Frankfurter...
...first when the new Solicitor General appeared before the Supreme Court and delivered the kind of hoarse, high-flown preachments which used to win him cases before North Carolina jurors, some of the wise old Justices on the nation's highest bench looked displeased. Gradually they grew more tolerant of Solicitor General Bigg's performances. Latterly they have been seen to wink at one another while he was speaking. Once in the midst of an hour's oration to the court, Mr. Biggs was interrupted by Chief Justice Hughes: "Mr. Solicitor General, you have talked 45 minutes...
...little more preparation of the Government's cases would do the Administration no harm. In defiance of precedent, when the gold cases reached the Supreme Court, Attorney General Cummings and two subordinates presented the Government's oral argument. The only public part played by the Solicitor General was to broadcast by radio news of the Government's "victory...
...Solicitor General, President Roosevelt appointed smart, Kentucky-born Stanley Reed, RFC General Counsel who helped to present the Administration's arguments in the gold cases...