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...Cohen & Corcoran...
Sirs: For the less chemically-minded TIME readers, why not designate "Cohen & Corcoran"* (TIME, Sept. 12) as the "china-eggs" of the Administration, in that "they promote action without taking any part in it?" MRS. JAS. DEB. WALBOCH Hollins...
...election day came, and no Roosevelt. Leary polled 1165 votes in ward 9 against 1106 for his nearest opponent, Francis J. Corcoran...
...represented the Gashouse in Congress for 15 of his 52 years, squarejawed, redheaded, truculent Representative John Joseph O'Connor. A Massachusetts Irishman who has two blood ties with the New Deal (his younger brother Basil was Franklin Roosevelt's law partner and Janizary Thomas Corcoran is his fourth cousin), Tammany's O'Connor has been only an off & on New Dealer. He has been off more than on since the White House helped Texas' Sam Rayburn beat him for the House Leadership, a situation not unlike that created when the President pushed "Dear Alben" Barkley...
...Addressing some Young Republicans last June, Representative Bruce Barton held up Tommy Corcoran as a model of industry for Young Republicans to emulate if they want to save their party. "It can be said truthfully of him," said Mr. Barton, "as was said by a contemporary of Sir Walter Raleigh: 'I know that he can toil terribly...