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Shortly before 10:45 one night last week Patrick J. Corcoran, 45-year-old union chief of 12,000 American Federation of Labor drivers, rounded a corner near his home in the Bryn Mawr section of Minneapolis, suddenly turned to flee and slumped to the sidewalk with a bullet in his brain. At midnight neighbors discovered his snow-covered body. Mrs. Corcoran dashed from the house wailing: "It's Pat. I knew they...
...Adams' personal concern was relieved when his good friend & tipster, Dr. Russel R. Noice, walked into the Star office, made known he was ready to tell police he had overheard a murder plotted in the cheap League of Nations beer parlor, but that the intended victim was not Corcoran but another labor leader. Soon Alderman A. G. Bastis revealed that not only Patrick Corcoran but four other labor leaders had been marked for death, that Corcoran himself knew he was in danger, that Rumorist Adams had merely printed what had been widely whispered in Twin City labor circles...
After five days had passed, Corcoran's murder was unsolved despite rewards of $10,000 offered by the Teamsters' Council, $500 by the Star, $500 by Governor Elmer Benson...
...that comes in at the White House to do some work and plays not only the piano but the accordion and the guitar . . .? Could it be Tommy Corcoran, White House Tommy, as they call him in Washington . . .? If this deduction be correct, it is proposed that next time after the gentleman who plays the piano has come in to do some work, the billing for the fireside chat be changed to read as follows: 'Thomas Corcoran will address his subjects on the state of the nation tonight through the courtesy of the broadcasting companies and the President...
...self-torn figure, partly carcass, called by the artist a "Premonition of Civil War," was one of the amazingly few paintings which reflected current world passions. To U. S. art enthusiasts several challengers appeared in the lively array of paintings by 107 U. S. artists: Edward Hopper's Corcoran Gold Medal Winner, Cape Cod Afternoon, Charles Sheeler's immaculately conceived City Interior, Frank Mechau's Last of the Wild Horses. Only U. S. painter in the money, however, was Manhattan's Robert Philipp, who won first honorable mention ($400) with Dust to Dust, a dustless scene...