Word: corcoran
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...first time in 20 years, a Democratic convention city was not overrun with rival candidates for the nomination. In Philadelphia there was only one headquarters, in the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel. A tight little headquarters it was, with Chairman Farley behind one closed door, Pressagent Charles Michelson behind another, Thomas Corcoran and Benjamin Cohen, New Deal ideologists, behind a third...
...Most insistent was Artist Boris Gordon who yowled that the commission be awarded to his picture without further ado largely because he produced the official Speaker's portrait of Champ Clark. Other portraits were by Paul Trebilcock, Students E. Egley and Ruth Van Sant of Washington's Corcoran Gallery, Student Lloyd Embry of the Yale School of Fine Arts, Nicholas Richard Brewer of St. Paul, Edwin B. Child of Dorset...
Down from Manhattan and Philadelphia hurried crack power executives to observe the proceedings. Up from Washington hopped President Roosevelt's two trouble-shooting young legalites, Thomas Corcoran and Benjamin Victor Cohen, co-authors of the original bill. SEC was represented by Chief Counsel John J. Burns. Also on hand was white-crowned Lawyer John William Davis, whose imposing presence generated much of the interest in an otherwise dull case...
...They [Messrs. Burns, Cohen & Corcoran] have chosen to come in here as friends of the court with what they are pleased to call suggestions, and I may add, measuring my words, that the so-called suggestions made by the chief counsel of the SEC would have been offensive to the dignity of a police court in his State of Massachusetts...
...Davis ripped into the Utility Act as the "most unexcused and unexcusable grasp of power" he had ever seen, "even in these fertile days." Much of his attack was against the broad interpretation of the Federal Government's postal and interstate commerce powers. When chunky, snub-nosed Tom Corcoran suggested that that implied the unconstitutionally of the Securities & Exchange Act, Mr. Davis declared: "Modesty reigned when that Act was drawn and passed and there was a bow at least to constitutional power. I find in this [Utility] Act not so much of a gesture." Earlier in the week...