Word: corcorans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late great Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes twirked his sweeping cavalry mustache, drawled to his chubby Irish protege, Tommy Corcoran...
Assembled were such Inner Circlers as Tommy Corcoran, Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, SEComrnissioner Edward ("Big Ed") Eicher, Federal Works Administrator John Carmody, Ernest Lindley, journalist, who helps write the McNutt speeches. Two men arranged the dinner: Economist David Cushman Coyle, Federal Security Counsel Fowler Harper, onetime dean of McNutt's Alma Mater, Indiana Law School...
...Inner Circlers McNutt has been known as: 1) the man with that funny name, 2) a handsome Hoosier Hitler who once called out troops to quash a strike. By last week these New Deal intellectuals could no longer ignore Politician McNutt. What went on at the dinner-which Tommy Corcoran left early-only the guests knew-and they kept...
According to Professor Raymond Moley, the New Deal mounted its economic horse and rode off in all directions about the time accordion-pumping Tommy Corcoran usurped the role of FDR enchanter previously played by guitar-plucking Will Woodin of American Car & Foundry. Woodin economy soon was forgotten, Woodin himself died, but left behind in the Treasury was an American Car & Foundry alumnus, Walter Joseph Cummings. Last week Mr. Cummings was conspicuous for a second time in recent years...
Centre of attraction at the Corcoran show were 48 prizewinners of the latest SFA competition, picked from 1,470 color sketches submitted anonymously to a jury of artists. Each of these will be painted as a post-office mural in a different State. Outstanding are Paul Sample's angular New England landscape (Westerly, R. I.), Charles W. Thwaites' wheat harvesters (Chilton, Wis.), William Calfee's fishermen drawing up their nets at dawn (Phoebus, Va.). Common denominator of the 48 is an attempt to say something definite about the U. S., past or present. Most interesting...