Word: corcorans
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...observers expect the measure to get very far without major changes. Illinois Republican Tom Corcoran, a co-sponsor of the proposal, acknowledges that some bills, of his fellow House members have their names on other gas bills, most opposing decontrol. Last week a group of 29 Congressmen announced plans for a measure to roll back some prices to January 1982 levels. In the Senate, Majority Leader Howard Baker has let it be known that he will not push the Reagan proposal, filibuster. Howard Metzenbaum, an Ohio Democrat, has threatened to filibuster. Ironically, the bill's best chances...
...receive the information elsewhere. If you plan to arrive on Tuesday, please check in with the receptionist in Byerly Hall (telephone: 495-1551) during working hours. If by some chance you can arrive only Monday evening, call either 495-1551 or 490-3645 and ask for Karen Corcoran who will direct you to your host...
...later Speaker) Sam Rayburn, a fellow Texan who became his beloved mentor, and whom Johnson eventually betrayed in a competition to become Franklin D. Roosevelt's chief operative in Texas. "Lyndon had one of the most incredible capacities for dealing with older men," recalls F.D.R. Brain Truster Tommy Corcoran, whose boss was among those captivated by the Johnson treatment. "He could follow someone's mind around, and get where it was going before the other fellow knew where it was going...
Moreover, Frankfurter used the Harvard Law Review to lend credibility to New Deal legislation instigated by his mentor. During the '30s, Brandeis met regularly with Thomas G. Corcoran and Benjamin V. Cohen, F.D.R.'s legislative drafting team. According to Murphy, Together, Corcoran and Cohen drafted Brandeis' proposals into viable legislative acts, while simultaneously acting as Frankfurter's eyes and ears in the capital...
Eighteen months ago, the Corcoran Gallery in Washington thought it would find out. Working on hints and tips as much as on the normal museum network, its associate director, Jane Livingston, and one of its curators, John Beardsley, traveled thousands of miles in America, mainly in the South, looking and interviewing and listing. The result opened at the Corcoran last month: "Black Folk Art in America, 1930-1980." Fifty years, 20 artists (most of them completely unknown outside their own communities), and almost 400 works-this is a singular act of discovery. Lovers of the quaint need not attend...