Search Details

Word: corcoran (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Rockland, Me.; Donald K. Anderson 2L, Phoenix, Ariz.; Lars H. Bengston 3L, Minneapolis, Minn.; Russell S. Bernhard 3L, Chicago, Ill.; John A. Bowler 3L, Bradford, Pa.; William A. Centner 2L, Battle Creek, Mich,; Howard L. Clark 2L, Altadena, Calif.; John D. Cochran 3L, Pittsburgh, Pa.; John P. Corcoran, Jr. 3L, Rhinebeck...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS GO TO EIGHTY TWO LAW STUDENTS | 11/16/1940 | See Source »

Democrat Byrnes. Senator Jimmy Byrnes of South Carolina, New Deal trouble shooter, was sent north this week to push over teetering New York State, coordinate ineffectual Boss Ed Flynn, amateur Tommy Corcoran. Charged Byrnes, speaking of a Willkie blast at insufficient conscription housing: "Result of Mr. Willkie's misleading statement . . . was to strike fear into the hearts of American mothers. . . ." (On tanks) "Mr. Willkie was unfair to the President, to the Army and to the Chrysler Corporation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUNDING OFF: Sounding Off | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

Ducking out of a conference with New York City's Mayor LaGuardia, Thomas ("the Cork") Corcoran forgot to duck when he entered a small city-owned car. He shattered the glass dome light with his head, was treated for a nasty cut on his crown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 21, 1940 | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

Other members of the Independent Voters' executive committee were announced: Cinemactor Melvyn Douglas, Harvard Law School's Dean James M. ("Chink") Landis, Novelist Fannie Hurst, Freda Kirchwey, editor of The Nation, Williams College's Professor Max Lerner, Thomas ("the Cork") Corcoran, official committee agitator, bobbed into New York City to help Mr. LaGuardia. To Springfield, Mass. went handsome Paul V. McNutt, onetime Presidential aspirant himself, whose throat was last year neatly slit by New Deal candidate-assassins. Keynoting the Massachusetts Democratic State Convention, Mr. McNutt described the Republican policy as giving business complete license to operate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: In the Bag? | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

...Major Corcoran strongly admires Franklin Roosevelt and "that remarkable woman who is his wife," as strongly deprecates the U. S. male's rabbitlike divorcing habits, his "I-can-take-it creed." Of the touted U. S. vitality he remarks: "No one was ever less of a born go-getter than the American. He is almost saurian in his sloth." Nervous instability is quite another matter: "I have never seen so much St. Vitus dance as since I've been here." For some years Wyndham Lewis has been one of the toughest, most provocative satirists alive. It is something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Visiting Englishman | 9/2/1940 | See Source »

Previous | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | Next