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Francis Biddle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Francis Beverley Biddle (May 9, 1886–October 4, 1968) was an American lawyer and judge who is most famous as the primary American judge during the Nuremberg trials after World War II. Biddle's writing skills had long been in evidence prior to the release of his memoirs. He had two sons, Edmund Randolph Biddle and Garrison Chapin, and was the subject of the 2004 play Trying by Joanna McClelland Glass, who had served as Biddle's personal secretary from 1967-1968. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Francis_Biddle   (580 words)

FRANCIS BIDDLE Francis Beverley Biddle | William Norman Birkett, 1. Francis Biddle war mit der Dichterin Katherine Garrison Chapin verheiratet. Biddle war einer von vier Söhnen von Algernon Biddle, einem Professor für Recht an der University of Pennsylvania. www.toonorama.com /encyclopedia/F/Francis_Biddle   (270 words)

University of Delaware: BIDDLE FAMILY PAPERS In 1941, Francis Biddle was appointed to the Supreme Court, where he served until the death of President Roosevelt in 1945. The Biddle family papers consists of eight linear feet, spanning from 1766 to 1943, and bulking in the nineteenth century and early twentieth century. Biddle won the case for the TVA, and in 1940, he was appointed U.S. Solicitor General, as well as the head of Immigration and Naturalization Services. www.lib.udel.edu /ud/spec/findaids/biddle.htm   (7224 words)

printcolumn.cfm?id=1704 One of the nearest relatives to Francis Biddle said to Joanna, "This play is a gift to our grandchildren." They were very happy to have the old man's memory revived. Replicating Biddle's physical ailments is only one aspect in his complex portrayal of a complex man. Though Biddle had become a Democrat out of concern for others' suffering during the Depression, he still cherished the mores of the privileged world in which he was raised. Biddle was a genuinely good public servant, and really was a "traitor to his class" in his care about the poor. www.broadwayworld.com /printcolumn.cfm?id=1704   (2523 words)

Playwright resurrects script to critical acclaim Francis Biddle would be horribly embarrassed, but in his heart of hearts the radical patrician might not be altogether displeased. There was indeed a real Francis Biddle (1886-1968), this nation’s Attorney General under Franklin D. Roosevelt and, after the war, chief justice at the Nuremburg trials of Goering, Hess, that lot. “Sarah with an ‘h’?” asks Francis Biddle, the octogenarian for whom she is about to go to work as a secretary in his office up over the garage of his and his wife’s home in Georgetown, the Washington, D.C. suburb. www.thevillager.com /villager_81/playwrightresurrects.html   (1343 words)

AllRefer.com - Francis Beverley Biddle (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia Francis Beverley Biddle 1886–1968, U.S. Attorney General (1941–45), b. AllRefer.com - Francis Beverley Biddle (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia Biddle was (1945–46) a U.S. judge for the trial of war criminals at Nuremberg. reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/BiddleF.html   (190 words)

mc04103t.htm Francis Biddle was born into a well connected aristocratic Republican family. He depicts the 82 year old Attorney General Francis Biddle under Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration, who also represented America at the Nuremberg trials. Although the playwright Joanna McClelland Glass does not harp unduly on Biddle's politics, one gets the general idea that beneath all the man's irritation, he is a humanist, capable of tender feelings, or at least his realization (however belated) that people are not put on earth to satisfy his whims, his orders, and his complaints. www.nytheatre-wire.com /mc04103t.htm   (678 words)

Montreal Expos News Biddle lost his chance to be a starter with Montreal because he tweaked his right hip muscle and had other little ailments during Spring Training. Biddle was able to shake off both outings and pitch well against the Diamondbacks and Astros during the Expos' recent homestand in Montreal. Biddle was on the disabled list three times from 1999 to 2002 because of elbow and shoulder problems. www.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/mon/news/mon_news.jsp?ymd=20030428&content_id=294353&vkey=news_mon&fext=.jsp   (804 words)

FRANCIS A. BIDDLE Francis Biddle war bis Juni 1945 Justizminister und dann Richter bei den Nürnbergern Prozessen. Auf Antrag des Präsidenten Trumans verließ Biddle diese Position nach dem Tod Roosevelts. www.toonorama.com /encyclopedia/F/Francis_A._Biddle   (152 words)

Untitled Document Francis Biddle was married to the poet Katherine Garrison Chapin. GO TO FRANCIS BIDDLE PAPERS: SERIES 3 (Personal Files, In 1947, Biddle was invited by Harry Truman to consider nomination for the position of secretary general to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO); however, because of dissension among the other delegates regarding nominations, his name was not formally presented. www.library.georgetown.edu /dept/speccoll/biddlef/scope.htm   (847 words)

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Boston.com / A&E / Music / 'Trying' explores adventure of aging Biddle was an aristocrat from a blue-blood Philadelphia family, and it's painful to watch his decline. Biddle served as attorney general under President Franklin Roosevelt and as chief American justice at the Nuremberg war crime trials. That journey serves as the backdrop for the core of "Trying": the relationship between the ailing, patrician Biddle, age 81, and his new, 25-year-old secretary, a "prairie populist" from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. www.boston.com /ae/music/articles/2004/10/13/trying_explores_adventure_of_aging   (514 words)

JNC: Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, USMC CQB Pioneer: Svinth Francis Biddle was the Attorney General of the United States from 1941-1945. Biddle was a Philadelphia socialite who fancied himself a boxer, and in 1906 he began taking a first-rate professional boxer named "Philadelphia" Jack O’Brien on visits to Sunday School classes at Philadelphia’s Holy Trinity Church. During the 1920s, Biddle’s favorite heavyweight boxer was Gene Tunney, and during the 1920s Biddle was often seen in the corner of "The Fighting Marine." See, for example, http://bally.fortunecity.com/mayo/239/tunney.book.long.count.chapter.4.txt.html. www.ejmas.com /jnc/jncart_Svinth_1201.htm   (2174 words)

ESPN.com: Rocky Biddle Player Card Biddle made nearly $2 million in a dreadful 2004, and he was released in early November. Expos pitcher Rocky Biddle left his start against the Astros in the third inning Aug. 6 after he was hit on the right ankle by a Lance Berkman line drive. Rocky Biddle has not been involved in any transactions this season. sports.espn.go.com /mlb/players/profile?statsId=6552   (139 words)

Untitled Document Reference to Sydney Francis Biddle and wife Dorothea; Edmund Randolph Biddle; Alex Biddle; Alexis Leger; Secretary of War Robert Patterson; and to a luncheon at the White House where she sat next to Mary Margaret Truman, talked with Mamie Eisenhower, and met Laura Berge (Mrs. "Neale"), is referred to by Katherine Biddle as "Geoffrey" or "Geoff." Not to be confused with references to Sydney and Dorothea Biddle, the latter probably being Sydney Francis Biddle, a son of Sydney Geoffrey Biddle. Reference to Francis Biddle's biography on Oliver Wendell Holmes; meeting with Millicent Todd Bingham to discuss Emily Dickinson; friend Charlotte Kellogg; visit of W.H. Auden to the Library of Congress; friends Marion and William Wasserman; tea with Marion Merrell; Chester Bowles; Edmund Randolph Biddle; radio talk by Edward Levi, Harold Ickes and Thurman Arnold. www.library.georgetown.edu /dept/speccoll/biddlefa/series1.htm   (3757 words)

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - Trying - 10/13/04 Her subject is Judge Francis Biddle (1886-1968), who served as attorney general under President Franklin Roosevelt and later was one of the judges on the Nuremberg Trials. Biddle and Glass's onstage persona, Sarah Schorr (Kati Brazda), initially clash, though she slowly gains his trust, confidence, and even respect as the days, weeks, and months pass. By the time the end arrives - Biddle states from the very beginning of the play that he knows he's living his final year - they've come to care for each other in a very special way: He's the loving father she never had, she's the firm, kind, and organized assistant he's long needed. www.talkinbroadway.com /ob/10_13_04.html   (643 words)

Trying, a CurtainUp review Playwright Joanna McClelland Glass lets the cantankerous 81-year-old Judge Francis Biddle explain it during his first encounter with 25-year-old Sarah Schorr, the latest in a string of secretaries. Glass, who actually was Biddle's secretary during his last year ((he was born in 1886, died in 1968), also deserves credit for her smartly written drama. The dictated excerpts from Biddle's letters which are woven into the script evoke bits and pieces from the Roosevelt-Truman era. www.curtainup.com /trying.html   (743 words)

Francis Biddle Viewing Relay Francis Biddle, wife of the Attorney General, examines "Relay", by Algot Stenbury of New York City, exhibited during the National Art Week show held during the week of November 17, in the Departmental Auditorium of the Department of Labor. Art Week, sponsored officially by the President of the United States, and co-sponsored by a Committee of Federal Agencies headed by Mrs. newdeal.feri.org /library/h12.htm   (89 words)

Watsonville Register-Pajaronian 12-9-43. Washington (UP) - Attorney General Francis Biddle Thursday urged that congress consider legislation revoking the citizenship of American-born citizens of Japanese descent who have professed loyalty to Japan. Biddle appeared before a house Dies subcommittee investigating riots at the Tulelake, Calif., camp of the War Relocation authority. Biddle said the problem of the 110,000 Japanese-Americans and Japanese excluded from the Pacific coast was one of "defense and law." www.santacruzpl.org /history/ww2/9066/articles/rp/43/12-9.shtml   (222 words)

American President Francis Beverley Biddle was born May 9, 1886, in Paris, France, to American parents. Francis Biddle died on October 4, 1968, in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Biddle began his career as the private secretary of Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes (1911-1912) before beginning a law practice in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he worked until 1937. www.americanpresident.org /history/franklindelanoroosevelt/cabinet/attorney/attorneyCopy3   (192 words)

SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Francis Biddle It focuses on prominent American jurist Francis Biddle, who was the attorney general in Franklin D. Roosevelt's White House and later became the chief judge at the Nuremberg war trials. Like Attorney General Francis Biddle during World War IIwho advised FDR against interning the Japanese and taking other extreme wartime measures that contravened the ConstitutionChertoff and other senior Justice Department officials sought to stretch the conventional legal paradigm of crime to terrorism in ways that would keep intact many of the Constitution's basic provisions. Described by his daughter, Letitia C. Biddle, as "a sixth-generation Philadelphian," Jimmy Biddle's ancestors included William Biddle, a friend of William Penn's who came to New Jersey in 1681; financier Nicholas Biddle, who founded the second bank in the United States; and Francis Biddle, President Franklin D. Roosevelt's attorney general. news.surfwax.com /gov/files/Francis_Biddle_usgov.html   (643 words)

Uptown Magazine Online - Arts Local actor/director Paterson helms this story of Francis Biddle, former U.S. attorney general who, at age 81, is trying to organize and document the events of his life before time runs out. The script, by Canadian playwright Joanna McClelland Glass, is based on her personal experiences as secretary to the real-life Francis Biddle in the late ’60s. Biddle, the product of an old-monied Philadelphia family, attended Harvard before entering politics and becoming personally involved with many milestone events of the 20th century, from being a member of FDR’s administration through the pivotal years of the Second World War to the famous postwar Nuremberg Trials. www.uptownmag.com /archive/arts/05feb10.htm   (550 words)

MSN Encarta - Search Results - Biddle Francis Beverly Biddle, Francis Beverly (1886-1968), American jurist and public official, born in Paris, and educated at Harvard University. MSN Encarta - Search Results - Biddle Francis Beverly Search for Magazine Articles on "Biddle Francis Beverly" encarta.msn.com /Biddle_Francis_Beverly.html   (90 words)

Search for relatives of Francis Earl Biddle Jr His father was Francis Earl Biddle - born -believe the date was Feb 15, 1899 in Philadelphia PA - died July 5, 1941 possibly in Long Beach, CA or that area. My father's name - Francis Earl Biddle Jr.- born August 15, 1924 in Philadelphia, PA.- he died July 17, 1977 in Downey, CA. His mother was Mary Frances Walker Biddle Schliffer Garrabrant - born August 13, 1899 in Marshall, MO. She died Dec 23, 1980. genforum.genealogy.com /biddle/messages/701.html   (303 words)

Blogcritics.org: FRANCIS BIDDLE GIVES IT A TRY Luckily for this Francis Biddle, he is played by Fritz Weaver. He is doddering on the edge of senility in 1967 at age 81, confronted by a new young secretary hired by Biddle's wife to replace the previous secretary who quit rather than put up with his patronizing insults and withering scorn, not to mention the long line of secretaries before her who didn't last. When Biddle discovers that his new secretary shares his love of e.e. blogcritics.org /straightup/2004/10/24/151231.php   (958 words)

Risa L. Goluboff, The Thirteenth Amendment and the Lost Origins of Civil Rights, 50 Duke L. J. 1609 (2001) Biddle's desire for a Thirteenth Amendment prohibition on state and local laws that served to support involuntary servitude in the South both expanded upon and represented a break with the Supreme Court peonage cases of the 1910s and 1940s. Biddle chose his test cases carefully so as to control precedent and broaden the scope of the laws. Biddle thus moved toward a position in which the prohibition of involuntary servitude could include not only direct physical and legal coercion by the employer, but also the larger legal framework that structured southern, especially agricultural, employment. www.law.duke.edu /journals/dlj/articles/dlj50p1609.htm   (17796 words)

New York Daily News - Theater - Howard Kissel: 'Trying' succeeds in crank-ing out a hit Weaver, 78, plays the 81-year-old Francis Biddle, attorney general under Franklin Roosevelt. Weaver is masterly at conveying the fierceness of Biddle's combativeness. Biddle is a fussbudget about language and modern conveniences. www.nydailynews.com /entertainment/theater/story/242044p-207561c.html   (512 words)

Theatre Review: Trying : Show Business Weekly rying is an autobiographical docu-drama about playwright Joanna McClelland Glass’ experience at age 25 of being the secretary to 81 year-old Francis Biddle (Fritz Weaver), Attorney General under President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Chief Judge of the Nuremberg trials. The progressively deteriorating Biddle is loquacious, domineering, repetitive, short on short term memory, and long on mood swings. Biddle considers essential for the job), along with the efficiency, energy and earnestness that wins over and "organizes" Biddle. www.showbusinessweekly.com /archive/312/trying.shtml   (559 words)

Welcome to Walnut Street Theatre Online Judge Francis Biddle played an integral part in one of the greatest trials of the 20th Century. Biddle contributed an essay to the NPR program THIS I BELIEVE. He served as one of the Chief Justices in the landmark trial of the crimes of the Nazi war machine. www.wstonline.org /frontrow_show.php?id=4   (125 words)

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