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...Signals. No matter how he got there, Hopkins' authority and power in Washington stem solely from the position he holds. Said one Cabinet member: "When Tommy Corcoran was in power and would telephone someone to get something done, that person never really knew whether it was something the President wanted or something which merely interested Thomas Gardner Corcoran. When Hopkins telephones, the man on the other end knows damn well that it's something the President wants." Hopkins' 1000% loyalty to the President is deplored by many but questioned by no one. Yet there were other loyal New Dealers...
...head and half legs ever since. He spends about as much time roving the nation as he spends in Washington. At least two of his reportorial exposes have resulted in Congressional investigations. Last week he was plugging away powerfully and persistently for another-of Thomas G. ("Tommy the Cork") Corcoran's reputed influence in the Department of Justice. In 1939 he won a Pulitzer Prize for his leg-&-headwork in uncovering the political prostitution of WPA in Kentucky. This year he won his fellow correspondents' vote as the Washington reporter doing the best all-around job, "measured...
...assistant were "personally incompatible." Instead of his resignation, Littell wrote out a withering 12,000-word blast at his boss. The Attorney General of the U.S., Littell charged, was guilty of "confusion [and] superficiality of mind . . . frustration . . . personal vanity . . . devious ways . . . petty, personal animosity . . . intimate connections" with Lobbyist Tommy Corcoran to the detriment of the public interest. He charged that the Attorney General was "exasperated" because Littell had warned Congress of three shady-looking Administration schemes...
Norman Littell was particularly harassed, he said, by a Justice Department fraud investigation of Savannah Shipyard Co., represented in Washington by Corcoran...
...have been asked many times in recent years: 'What has Tommy Corcoran got on Biddle?' The Attorney General charges that I am disloyal. Was it disloyal to answer such a question by saying: 'I don't know...