Word: solicitor
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Harvard Law School dean emeritus Erwin N. Griswold, hailed by President Johnson as one of the nation's foremost lawyers, was sworn in as Solicitor General yesterday in Washington...
...solicitor general, Griswold will represent the government in cases argued before the Supreme Court. His nomination was aproved by the Senate on October 12 in a unanimous voice vote. He succeeds Thurgood Marshall, who earlier this month became the first Negro Supreme Court Justice...
...every triumph of justice all good people are the victors," the President said. "The responsibility of seeking and the challenge of winning these triumphs are America's charge to it's Solicitor General...
Griswold is no stranger to the office he now heads. In 1929, he graduated at the head of his class from the Law School, where he also edited the Law Review. For the next five years, he was a staff lawyer in the Solicitor General's office where he won a measure of fame arguing complicated tax cases before the Supreme Court...
...days Erwin N. Griswold will leave the Dean's office in Langdell Hall to take charge of the Federal government's business before the Supreme Court as U.S. Solicitor General. And in several months President Pusey and the Fellows of the Corporation will appoint a successor to Griswold. Their choice will be every bit as significant as President Johnson's nomination of Griswold three weeks...