Word: corcorans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heading a newly created Section of Fine Arts, charged with supervising such decoration. Very few ladies in cheesecloth have found their way into Federal buildings since. The sort of art which has replaced them was amply demonstrated last week by a 456-item show in Washington's Corcoran Gallery, celebrating the Section of Fine Arts' fifth anniversary...
...October 1938 one attempt was made to break the log jam. Assistant Secretary of War Louis Johnson got up a National Defense Power Committee on which the New Deal's very power-minded Corcoran-Cohen organization was also represented. Mr. Johnson rounded up the topflight utility bosses (one of whom, white-mustached, aristocratic Hobart Porter of American Water Works, once used him as a Washington lawyer), got them to pledge to invest up to $1,000,000,000 a year on war emergency plant in 1939 and 1940. One power executive remarked: "They wanted ballyhoo and we gave...
...though dissension in the War Department were not enough, Washington recently was treated to one of the strangest episodes in New Deal Fantasia. The President's undercover men (Janizaries Corcoran & Cohen) began to shoot at Louis Johnson who all along had been trustfully waiting for the President to make peace by giving him Harry Woodring's place...
...Corcoran: "You have a feeling in your viscera, perhaps...
...Corcoran, begging Moley to help him draft a 1936 campaign speech for the President : "You write the music. He only sings...