Word: corcorans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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General Counsel Calvert Magruder, is Real No. 2 man in Wages & Hours. Tommy Corcoran drafted him on a year's leave from Harvard Law School, where he is assistant dean...
...National Defense Power Committee was appointed by Franklin Roosevelt in September when the recent European crisis was getting hot. Headed by Assistant Secretary of War Louis Johnson, it includes such New Deal dynamos as Thomas Corcoran and Benjamin Cohen. Last week's announcement, result of several quiet conferences between utility magnates and the Administration powers, was seen in various lights by the utility men. One said: "They wanted ballyhoo and we gave it to them." Chairman Floyd Carlisle of Consolidated Edison Co. would only say: "We are delighted to make the studies with the Government.'' Mr. Groesbeck...
...High in the esteem of Janizary Thomas ("Tommy the Cork") Corcoran as a candidate for the vacancy on the U. S. Supreme Court is Governor Frank Murphy of Michigan, who is having a tough battle for reelection. Observers were not surprised to read last week in "Washington Daily Merry-Go-Round," the political column by Drew Pearson* & Robert S. Allen which is one of Janizary Corcoran's favorite wind tunnels for testing political balloons, a handsome tribute to Mr. Murphy and a serious discussion of his qualifications to succeed the late Justice Cardozo. Excerpts: "When Murphy was judge...
...these-carefully prepared and prereleased to the press-the editing of Janizaries Corcoran & Cohen was unmistakable. They stamped Mr. Ickes as Possibility No. 1 in the Janizariat's mind for a 1940 Presidential candidate acceptable to Mr. Roosevelt, a candidate to be built up before Democratic National Chairman Jim Farley and his alliance of local bosses can converge on someone else, such as Missouri's Senator Bennett Clark.* "I think President Roosevelt would carry the United States if he ran again, and he might have to run," declared Mr. Ickes...
Although I disagree with Tom Corcoran's politics and policies, I do agree that he is and has been a remarkable and very capable young man. But that hut on Mt. Washington which Saturday Evening Post and TIME say he built "with his two hands"! About 1920 the Appalachian Mountain Club built an extension to their Lakes-of-the-Clouds hut on the side of Mt. Washington. . . . Tom was one of several who packed building material one and one-half miles down from the summit of the mountain-no easy task-and assisted in cooking for the mountain climbers...