Word: corcorans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coup was a "confidential" memo, which he issued two months before on the Monopoly Investigation (he called the village grocer as much of a monopolist as any trust). One motive behind the Monopoly memorandum was Berle Jr.'s private feud with competitive White House counsellor, hearty, pragmatic Tom Corcoran, who did not plan the Monopoly Investigation as just another outlet for Berle's talents...
...checkered career been by turns a Republican and a Fusionite, a standard bearer of the American Labor Party. He is also a good friend of the New Deal and has said he would take the Democratic nomination for President if it were offered. Rumor recently whispered that Thomas Gardiner Corcoran was advising him on ways & means of controlling his State's delegation to next year's Democratic Convention, possibly with a view to obtaining another nomination for Franklin Roosevelt, perhaps to offer New Deal support to Longshot LaGuardia...
That rumor last week led a reporter to seek out Janizary Corcoran. Found in Washington's Powhatan Hotel restaurant devouring a filet mignon, Tommy the Cork said he had not seen Mayor LaGuardia in six months. "Must be somebody else," said he between bites. "I hear there's another Tom Corcoran...
Another Tommy Corcoran (Thomas Louis Joseph Corcoran) is assistant counsel and adviser to Governor Herbert Henry Lehman of New York. Thomas L. J. is a lawyer (taught in Fordham University Law School from 1934 until last year), and a braintruster in his own right...
...last week Thomas L. J. Corcoran said firmly that he had never conferred with Mayor LaGuardia on any matter of any kind. Rumor chasers began looking for a Tommy Corcoran...