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Shameful Shreds. Then Tom Corcoran opened his small pink mouth, told his story of the "threat." With cold, lucid, driving fury, he tore Ralph Brewster's tale to shameful shreds...
...Brewster, he said, some two years ago at the Manhattan apartment of Dr. Ernest Gruening (pronounced greening), Director of the Interior Department's Division of Territories & Island Possessions. As editor-publisher of the Portland, Me. Evening News from 1927 to 1932, Dr. Gruening had been a warm friend & ally of Ralph Brewster in his fight on the Insulls. Mr. Corcoran was roundly assured that Mr. Brewster was one man above all others who could be relied upon to fight the power interests. On the President's orders, went on Witness Corcoran, he helped draft the Wheeler-Rayburn Utility...
Meantime Messrs. Corcoran and Brewster were working hand in glove for Passamaquoddy. Two fears beset legal Agent Corcoran, he explained. One was that the Power interests, through their Republican allies, might bring nuisance suits to check construction after the dam was started. The other was that, once completed, the dam would become another Muscle Shoals which the Federal Government would lack power to operate. Therefore he felt obliged to postpone construction until Maine's Legislature should create a State Power Authority to build and operate the dam in the Federal Government's behalf. Only on Representative Brewster...
Week before the House vote Representative Brewster went up to Maine promising to return in time to speak for the "death sentence." When he did return on the morning of the vote, it was to inform Mr. Corcoran that he had discovered himself in a "peculiar political position" in Maine and could not make the speech. Dismayed, Mr. Corcoran arranged to meet him and Dr. Gruening in Statuary Hall just before the vote. There Maine's No. 1 Power foe made the astounding revelation that he was not only not going to speak for the "death sentence...
...Liar!" "I said to Mr. Brewster then, in front of Dr. Gruening," snapped Witness Corcoran, " 'If, as you say, your political situation is such that you are not a free man and have to take the power companies into account . . . you know perfectly well that I can no longer trust your assurance that you will protect the Quoddy relation...