Word: corcorans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Janizary Tom Corcoran, whom Raymond Moley introduced to palace councils, appears as a perennial sophomore. Author Moley blandly notes a private talk with Corcoran. Said Corcoran, explaining how he would get around Franklin Roosevelt's implied promise to put the late Joe Robinson on the Supreme Court: ". . . There aren't any binding promises in politics. There isn't any binding law. You just know that the strongest side wins...
...President took notice of, but did nothing about a war brewing within his wartime official family. When a journalistic storm blew up after Secretary Steve Early announced that the Brain Trust was "out the window," the President declared abruptly that Janizaries Benjamin Cohen and Thomas G. Corcoran still had their jobs and his confidence...
Samuel Orman Clark Jr. for James Ward Morris in the Tax Division. Bright brother of former Dean Charles Edward Clark of the Yale Law School, now a U. S. Circuit judge, Sam Clark, too, served first with SEC. His presence at Justice makes Treasury lawyers (of whom Tom Corcoran's young friend Edward Foley is now chief) feel more like working with the Attorney General's Office, which they hitherto avoided...
...same revamping process has been applied to district attorneys. In Manhattan, lethargic Lamar Hardy was replaced by John Thomas Cahill, 36, another Corcoran familiar. Prosecutor Cahill is already famed for standing up to impressive John William Davis, the Democrats' 1924 nominee for President, in the Levy & Hahn proceedings. In Chicago, U. S. Attorney Mike Igoe had to be elevated to the district bench to make way for sharpshooting, young (36) William J. Campbell. Like...
...conspicuous Old Dealer on the scene was John O'Connor, the purged Congressman from New York. Uninvited, he prowled around town looking for infractions of the Hatch Act, growling against the convention's Rooseveltian hoopla. To one reporter he said: "It has been prearranged in Washington by Corcoran, Cohen and Ishansky. . . . Since John L. Lewis is pushed out of the picture as the most powerful man in the country, Ishansky is running the country." Inquiry revealed that by "Ishansky" Mr. O'Connor meant "someone who looks like" Constantine Oumansky, Ambassador to the U. S. from Soviet Russia...