Word: corcoran
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Puzzled over a job for Tommy ("The Cork") Corcoran, who Washington rumor said was slated for an Assistant Secretaryship of the Navy-although some said War. Meanwhile "The Cork" prowled about more secretively than ever, still in too much of a hurry to buy a new overcoat to replace the seedy out-at-seams chesterfield he has worn for nine years...
...class-conscious U. S. citizens can believe possible; but the U. S. is taking no chance of being caught unawares if dissatisfaction develops in British labor. Before the Winant appointment was a week old it was disclosed that Benjamin Cohen, of the defunct New Deal law-writing team of Corcoran & Cohen, would accompany him to London as counselor-of-embassy...
Born. To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Corcoran, a daughter, their first; in Washington, day before the re-inauguration of Tommy the Cork's big boss...
Presidential Adviser Thomas Gardiner ("Tommy the Cork") Corcoran used to work until 4 a.m., used to travel far & wide on the moment's spur. Grounded in Washington while his pretty wife Peggy was momentarily expecting their firstborn, he mourned: "This domesticity ruins the irregularity of my life...
Dumbarton Oaks under the direction of Harvard and the Fogg Museum of Art will thus be added to the important group of museums new established in Washington. Among these are the National Gallery of Art (Mellon Foundation). Corcoran Gallery, Freer Gallery, Duncan Phillips Memorial Gallery, Folger Library, George Hewitt Myers Textile Museum, Smithsonian Institution, and Library of Congress...