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...unofficial National Gallery by virtue of location, Washington's sedate Corcoran swam into the news last week. Rejected by Corcoran's jury for its sixteenth biennial show of U. S. oil paintings was The Eternal City, famed satire on Roman Fascism by conscientious Artist Peter Blume (TIME, Jan. 3, 1938). When supporters of Artist Blume snorted "politics!", supporters of the Corcoran sniffed "publicity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Eternal City | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

Harry Hopkins was not solely responsible for his Des Moines speech. As with most key New Deal utterances these days, it was guided to the microphone by Janizary Thomas Corcoran. Economist Willard Thorp contributed the part on labor, Lawyer Ben Cohen the part on utilities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOVERNMENT: In Reserve | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

...born in Minnesota, lived in the State of Washington from 1904 to 1922, hence is a Westerner. From his hospital bed in Baltimore, where he was recuperating from an appendectomy and faithfully hatching out some hen's eggs (TIME, Feb. 13), Janizary Thomas ("The Cork") Corcoran applauded. Mr. Douglas was called to the White House. When the President left town without making any appointments, the Douglas trial-balloon was still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Vigilant Fisherman | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

Oetje (pronounced eachie) John Rogge was a Harvard Law School classmate of Tommy Corcoran, currently has the juicy job of handling SEC's attack on Transamerica Corp., the $138,000,000 bank holding company accused of registering "false and misleading statements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: A. P.'s Net | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

Thomas Gardiner ("Tommy the Cork") Corcoran of the White House Janizariat went to Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore), had his appendix removed. A friend who keeps up with doings in New Zealand (see p. 72) sent him one dozen fertile hens' eggs to take into bed with him and hatch out*-during his forced absence from plots & plans in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 13, 1939 | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

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