Word: corcorans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Roosevelt last week appointed, to succeed Oliphant as general counsel of the Treasury, his friend Tommy Corcoran's friend Edward H. Foley Jr., 34, acting counsel since December...
...Leon Henderson became consulting economist of WPA, catching Harry Hopkins' attention with a treatise entitled "Boom or Bust." He owed his resurrection to his phenomenal vigor, and his facility for digesting great gobs of statistics, transforming them into entrancing, apparently profound diagnoses of national ills. Janizary Tommy Corcoran last year took him in hand, putting his capacities to good use for the Temporary National Economic (antimonopoly) Committee...
Reviewing these feats, Tournament Manager Fred Corcoran of the Professional Golfers' Association last week recommended that men's par, intact for the past quarter of a century, be whittled down for golfers of tomorrow...
...said, "Give me the making of the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws,"* had never heard of the U. S. Supreme Court. Tommy-the-Cork Corcoran and his boss, the President, love ballads, but believe that the laws they have got on the statute books are better and should be preserved to posterity by a high court minded like the New Deal's lawmakers...
...Richardson is one of the busiest in the Capital and one of its principal assets is Partner Richberg's erstwhile intimacy with Franklin Roosevelt. Although he still sees the President frequently, Donald Richberg's advice no longer carries much weight, for the anti-NRA team of Cohen & Corcoran, high in White House favor, are decidedly anti-Richberg...