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...with his immediate boss, Attorney General Francis Biddle. Worse still, zealous Lawyer Littell got into the habit of denouncing Washington bungling in public. His zeal finally got on the nerves of a formidable array of Old New Dealers, including Harold Ickes, Jesse Jones, Francis Biddle and Tommy ("The Cork") Corcoran, ex-brain-truster turned lawyer-lobbyist...
Last week, after five bustling years in the Justice Department, Norman Littell had a rare Washington experience. Franklin Roosevelt fired him.* The reason: "insubordination." Said ex-Assistant Attorney General Littell: "I am a victim of the Ickes-Corcoran-Biddle axis. . . . The Commander in Chief ... is completely absorbed in the war. He cannot be supposed to know all that is going on in the Government departments." Lawyer Littell's version of what has been going on in the Justice Department...
This lively P.G.A. revival dates back 18 months to what Fred Corcoran, round-faced P.G.A. tournament manager, calls his "noble experiment." Just after U.S. tournaments were theoretically given up for the duration, Corcoran went to Britain. He saw Britons crowding the ancient St. Andrews links the morning after an air raid, the game proceeding as usual along bomb-pocked fairways. He made up his mind to follow the British lead...
...Kentucky, Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas, Circuit Court Judge Sherman Minton of Indiana, War Manpower Commissioner Paul McNutt of Indiana, Senator Harry Truman of Missouri. Some Washington rumors had it that Wendell Willkie had been sounded out for the job. Sam Rosenman had joined Harold Ickes and Tommy Corcoran, the "Big Fix" of 1940, in supporting justice Douglas, a young man (45), a Far Westerner and a liberal who would not offend too many conservatives...
...that lonely being, a Democrat in Wall Street. Jimmy Forrestal preached the inevitability of securities regulation, became fast friends with Tommy Corcoran. Harry Hopkins, Bill Douglas. He also urged businessmen to enter government. His own chance came in the summer of 1940, when Franklin Roosevelt picked him as an administrative assistant. Two months later he moved to the Navy...