Word: solicitor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin Roosevelt last week chose to jolt the nation by his conservative appointment to the Court. So one afternoon White House Executive Clerk Maurice C. Latta marched in to the Senate with the nomination of retiring Justice George Sutherland's successor: Stanley Forman Reed. So, also, photographers stormed Solicitor General Reed in his office (see cut) to catch him before he put on judicial dignity...
...Lawyer Reed to conduct the Government's successful defense of a collateral gold clause case before the Supreme Court in 1935 he was still more impressed, got him the appointment of assistant attorney general and that same year persuaded Franklin Roosevelt that Stanley Reed should be given the Solicitor Generalship, highest legal command save Homer Cummings' in the first great war between the New Deal and the Supreme Court...
Stanley Reed, Solicitor General of the United States and appointee to the Supreme Court, will definitely be present Friday evening at Langdell Hall, where he is to be one of three judges of the Ames Competition...
...appointment of Solicitor General Stanley Reed to the Supreme Court gives President Roosevelt reasonable assurance that he can now carry out his program unhampered by constant judicial interference. The United States needs a high court that can adjust legal theory to economic reality in the face of rapidly changing conditions. We can no longer afford the cultural lag that has so long afflicted the judiciary...
...thought he might be permitted at least a small crow. Older & sportier than the run of undergraduates, Fred Healy had a legendary good time at the University of Illinois. When he left there in 1914 he sold automobile accessories for a while, in 1917 became a Country Gentleman ad solicitor out of the Chicago office. He was the first to suggest that Curtis set up headquarters in Detroit to handle the rapidly growing automobile accounts, became head of that office in 1925 and originated $10,000,000 worth of business (70% automotive) in 1928. That interested Mr. Lorimer...