Word: corcorans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...sooner had Representative O'Connor got well started toward headlines, investigating the mutual accusations of Representative Brewster and Brain Truster Tom Corcoran, than Senator Black stole the front page from him by a more spectacular investigation of fake telegrams from Pennsylvania (TIME, July...
Week before the House vote Representative Brewster went up to Maine promising to return in time to speak for the "death sentence." When he did return on the morning of the vote, it was to inform Mr. Corcoran that he had discovered himself in a "peculiar political position" in Maine and could not make the speech. Dismayed, Mr. Corcoran arranged to meet him and Dr. Gruening in Statuary Hall just before the vote. There Maine's No. 1 Power foe made the astounding revelation that he was not only not going to speak for the "death sentence...
...Liar!" "I said to Mr. Brewster then, in front of Dr. Gruening," snapped Witness Corcoran, " 'If, as you say, your political situation is such that you are not a free man and have to take the power companies into account . . . you know perfectly well that I can no longer trust your assurance that you will protect the Quoddy relation...
That was the "threat." Representative Brewster, nervously drumming his fingers on the committee table, was growing livid. Witness Corcoran continued...