Word: corcorans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that lonely being, a Democrat in Wall Street. Jimmy Forrestal preached the inevitability of securities regulation, became fast friends with Tommy Corcoran. Harry Hopkins, Bill Douglas. He also urged businessmen to enter government. His own chance came in the summer of 1940, when Franklin Roosevelt picked him as an administrative assistant. Two months later he moved to the Navy...
President James Bryant Conant and the Harvard Corporation were hosts to Mayor John H. Corcoran, City Manager John B. Atkinson, and eight Cambridge City Councillors at Eliot House last night. This dinner is the second of the annual affairs initiated last year...
...rushed to defend the craft against the President, was this time slow to react. Lean, acidulous Drew Pearson, the capital's No. 1 gossip columnist, is not popular with his colleagues. He has always had good sources in the State and Justice Departments, was close to the old Corcoran-Cohen team, has produced many an authentic news beat (the overage destroyers deal, the University of Louisiana graft scandals). But he is frequently guilty of colossal errors of fact, often reports cocktail gossip as gospel truth, sometimes writes colossal fictions. (In 1940, a few weeks before John L. Lewis went...
...program will begin with an inspection by the officer from the First Naval District accompanied by Lieutenant Walton P. Lewis, Officer in Charge of the school, and Lieutenant (jg) Charles J. Kinolski, Executive Officer. Also present at the public ceremony will be Mayor John H. Corcoran of Cambridge and Superintendent of Parks Stephen H. Mahoney...
...last five years, a flashy plebe lawyer named Edward Fretwell Prichard Jr., 27, has gagged his way through Washington as the fat man's Tommy Corcoran...