Word: corcoran
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...around the President-Tommy Corcoran, Harry Hopkins, Ben Cohen, Adolf Berle Jr., William O. Douglas, Felix Frankfurter, William Bullitt, Robert H. Jackson, Samuel I. Rosenman, and the other "brain guys"-pass unrecognized on any streets but Washington's. The views of each of these Presidential advisers differ radically in practically every respect except devotion to the Boss. Berle and The Cork enthusiastically dislike each other; Hopkins has "stabbed" Corcoran so often that the Janizariat often wonders if there is a fresh spot left for the knife. What they all now think of Associate Supreme Court Justice Frank Murphy could...
...rate of 12,000 to 15,000 tons within a year. Since total U. S. production last year was only 6,500 tons, their proposal sounded fantastic. But they had Kaiser's record to prove that nothing was impossible, and among their attorneys they had Tommy ("The Cork") Corcoran, who knows as much about cutting Government red tape as Kaiser knows about foiling time and nature...
...Justice Holmes the decision was one which had to be overturned. Years later, when his days were running down, he told his promising secretary-protege, a handsome, huge-headed young Rhode Island Irishman named Thomas Gardiner Corcoran, to take up the task. Corcoran vowed, when he entered the Government in 1932, never to leave Washington until the case had been overruled. The years passed, the courts and Congress nibbled away-by last week little was left but to have a decision specifically overruling the 1918 case...
...retired in 1937. Last week, five days after the new Court unanimously overruled Hammer v. Dagenhart, old (81) ex-Justice Van Devanter died of a heart attack at Washington. On the bench in his seat sat Justice Hugo La Fayette Black, first Roosevelt appointee to the Court. With Tommy Corcoran and Benjamin V. Cohen (see p. 15), Black had devised the wage-hour law, had inserted in it the child-labor provisions as a deliberate challenge to Hammer v. Dagenhart. Now Hugo Black participated triumphantly in certifying his law's constitutionality...
...flight Scripps-Howard editor and executive for 16 years, Mellett parted company with Roy Howard in 1937 over editorial policy in the Supreme Court fight. Called by President Roosevelt to head the National Emergency Council, super-press bureau of the New Deal, Mellett soon succeeded Charles Michelson and Tommy Corcoran in the President's counsels. Two years ago, when the Senate killed NEC, Mellett took over the Office of Government Reports, and became one of the "secret six" executive assistants to the President. Since then he has picked the heads of most key press bureaus in the New Deal...