Word: corcorans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dumpy, melon-headed promoter from Manhattan, Frank Cohen, who in 18 months had puffed up a $5,000 investment into an ordnance empire with assets of more than $6,000,000 (TIME, Nov. 3). One was Franklin Roosevelt's old friend Thomas Gardiner ("Tommy the Cork") Corcoran. One was a lanky, jug-eared bureaucrat, Charles Franklin West, who no longer has a bureau...
First on the stand last week was Tommy Corcoran. For weeks Reporter Thomas L. Stokes had been blasting away about Corcoran's defense lobbying, his connection with Frank Cohen's Empire Ordnance Corp. Tommy Corcoran had asked the committee to hear...
...Mayer John D. Lynch, John H. Corcoran '18., Russell Gerould '20. Mareus Morton, Jr. '21 L. And A. John Serene, who have all received the blessings of Dean Landis in this campaign, are among the nine men leading the field so far. Acting Mayor Francis L. Sennott is top ma with 2519 first-choice votes, followed by Lynch and Corcoran...
Other Plan E supporters indicated more hope. Martin Morton, Jr., a graduate of the Law School stated that he was "confident I'll get in" and maintained that "a majority of the Plan E slate will be elected." John H. Corcoran '18 believes that the Plan E slate will "come out very well," but like other candidates he finds that situation very confused, because of the large number of campaigners...
...Justice's victorious announcement tasted like milk toast. It went out of its way to pat Sterling on the back. It was nonetheless a victory, for the Department of Justice, for the vigorous anti-Nazi elements in Sterling's management, and for their mentor, Thomas Gardiner Corcoran, who (as Sterling's counsel) worked out the deal. It also patterned one method by which U.S. corporations can cancel German contracts without subjecting themselves to stockholders' suits...