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...years ago when a newly-elected President was about to take over the Government, many a candidate sought the job of Solicitor General (salary: $10,000). The Attorney General sits in the Cabinet and runs the Department of Justice but the Solicitor General is his right-hand man, the Government's No. 1 trial lawyer. Knowing Franklin Roosevelt's preferences, insiders were sure that the New Deal's Solicitor General would be Felix Frankfurter, if that Harvard Law Schooler would accept. Hard was the road of those who wanted to beat Professor Frankfurter...
Attempting to speak next, Conservative Solicitor General Sir Donald Somervell provoked bedlam by opening with the words "You have just listened to a great speech by a great...
...happily into an adjoining bathroom with full-length mirrors, frosted window panes, a shower stall with seven needle sprays and pastel-tinted tile. Then with consternation she noted that there was another door to her bathroom. She opened it and found it led into the future office of her Solicitor General, Charles E. Wyzanski Jr. Officially Mr. Wyzanski is her right-hand man, her invaluable aide who accompanies her on many of her visits to the White House, who represents her in nearly all important labor disputes. Yet she, a New Englander born and bred, recoiled from the idea...
...architects, demanded an immediate change. The bedeviled architects protested. Madam Secretary insisted. Moving day for the Department was postponed. Carpenters tore down the second door and masons replaced it with a brick wall two feet thick to protect the Secretary's privacy. Hastily a corner of the Solicitor's office was hedged off for a second bathroom for Mr. Wyzanski's private...
...bright young men, Paul A. Freund, onetime secretary to Mr. Justice Brandeis, and John G. Laylin, assistant to General Counsel Herman Oliphant, of the Treasury. But the Government's oral argument was definitely less than lawyerlike. Rather than risk his case in the uncertain hands of his Solicitor General, Attorney General Cummings put on his cutaway, striped trousers and derby and marched to the bar in person. Flanking him at this Thermopylae were competent but uninspired Stanley Reed, general counsel for RFC, and uninspired Angus D. Maclean, Assistant Solicitor General...