Word: corcoran
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Policy Maker. As his chief attorney, Jimmy Byrnes brought back to a dominant role in Washington a man whose words and ideas had once spelled magic-Benjamin Victor Cohen, the idealistic, philosophical half of the once super-active, super-powerful team of White House favorites, Corcoran & Cohen...
...somewhat changed, more modest, even more ascetic Ben Cohen who now settled himself at practical Jimmy Byrnes's right hand-ready to draft his orders, do his leg work, feed him ideas. In the palmy middle years of the New Deal, Ben Cohen and Thomas G. ("The Cork") Corcoran were in there swinging hard for New Deal reforms. They drafted the SEC and Holding Company Acts; they helped map Franklin Roosevelt's Supreme Court fight, helped plot the unsuccessful 1938 political purge...
After Partner Corcoran left Government service for a fat private Washington law practice, Partner Cohen faded from the Washington spotlight. He volunteered as adviser to U.S. Ambassador John G. Winant in London to help speed Lend-Lease. After a brief spell in England he returned to Washington. Although he dropped off the Government payroll, he stayed in the background, occasionally helping to draft a bill, to give advice. He turned down several jobs offered by Franklin Roosevelt. Still an ardent New Dealer, it was winning the war that seemed important now. He was waiting for the spot in which...
...Secret is the astute James theory that wartime fans, tired of pure heat, now want their heartstrings twanged. Other heartthrob Success Secrets in James's band: Helen Forrest, throb-voiced torcheuse, who copes as smoothly with wacky songs as with moon-June lyrics; Johnny McAfee, vocalist, and Corky Corcoran, sax wizard...
Iowa-born Carroll Barnes studied at Washington's Corcoran School of Art, later held a scholarship at Michigan's famed Cranbrook Academy. He got the idea for his heroic-sized statue from a Los Angeles critic who had seen a smaller, 4 ft. 6 in. Paul Bunyan by Barnes at an exhibition, thought it might look well four times as big. His opportunity came when he heard that a sequoia tree standing on the slopes of the Sierras had been weakened in a Mt. Whitney hurricane, and could be cut down. Barnes trucked an 18-ft. section...