Word: corcorans
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...year-old Manhattan painter, a favorite subject has always been the U. S. Navy gamboling on shore leave among tousled trollops and floozies. Six years ago, when one of Cadmus' shore-leave frolics was hung in a Public Works of Art Project exhibition in Washington's Corcoran Gallery, the late Admiral Hugh Rodman, U.S.N. got good & mad. Said he: "It represents a most disgraceful, sordid, disreputable drunken brawl wherein apparently a number of enlisted men are consorting with a party of streetwalkers. . . . This is an unwarranted insult. . . ." Painter Cadmus' canvas was promptly taken down...
...isolated. Around him, on the pedestal where Presidents must live, are men on whom he relies. In seven years the make up of that group has changed several times. In 1933 it centred on Raymond Moley, in 1935 Rexford Guy Tugwell was one of its leading figures, and Corcoran and Cohen were in the ascendant. As the President sets out on his Third Term odyssey, the complexion of the group has changed again...
...Corcoran & Ben Cohen are not, as many a columnist has reported, on the way out. Their continued survival simply proves an old Roosevelt axiom: that the President's advisers are specialists, whom he calls on when he has a problem they can deal with. Ben Cohen is the New Deal's legal draftsman, not so busy as he used to be now that the emphasis is off new reforms, but still on call. Tommy Corcoran is the decisive, ruthless doer. Example: he recently arranged the shift of alien control from coddly Fanny Perkins' Labor Department...
Harry Hopkins possibly excepted. Franklin Roosevelt has no one, general adviser, no "Assistant President" (Raymond Moley tried to fill the role, got booted out for his pains). Such facile young "killers" as Corcoran & Cohen understand this facet of their chief, do not sulk when they are neglected for days on end. Harold Ickes does not understand, wrings his heart because he cannot be all things all the time to Franklin Roosevelt, who nevertheless esteems and frequently consults explosive Mr. Ickes...
...Basil O'Connor, who is personal lawyer both to the President and to Sara Delano Roosevelt. Still another, surprisingly enough, is onetime Attorney General Homer Cummings, who by running the Department of Justice on the basis of political patronage put the New Deal on many a spot. Tommy Corcoran once asked Sam Rosenman why grubby Homer Cummings was kept so long in the Attorney-Generalship. Rosenman answered: "You probably have forgotten that Cummings notified the Chief of his nomination for Vice President...