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...talked in a house on 19th Street. This establishment, which humorous old Oliver Wendell Holmes called The House of Truth, was the precursor of the "little Red House on R Street" which several of Mr. Frankfurter's protégés, including Ben Cohen and Tom Corcoran, made famous...
...Boys. Felix Frankfurter's notes recommending young lawyers-over a scrawled "FF"-fluttered into Washington long before the New Deal (Corcoran, for instance, was a gift to Hoover's RFC). The fact that 125 "happy hot dogs" are in Washington today spurred General Hugh Johnson to call Professor Frankfurter "the most influential single individual...
Childless Felix Frankfurter is pleased when the hot dogs call him "Poppa." Some of their doings please Poppa completely. He is proud of the share Hot Dogs Cohen & Corcoran had in drafting the Public Utility Holding Company Act and the Securities Exchange Act, both expressions of the Brandeis-Frankfurter economic crusade against bigness and irresponsibility. But NRA left Mr. Frankfurter cold and suspicious. And though he did not publicly attack the Court Plan, he wrote an indignant letter of repudiation when an article in a British magazine gave out that Protégés Cohen & Corcoran had helped originate...
...What put Corcoran, Hopkins & Co. into the armament business was a chance to hitch New Deal pump-priming to National Defense. In the democratic jitters after Munich they saw a glittering opportunity to butter up and stimulate heavy industry without surrendering to it on the issues of labor, utilities, regulation. The bright prospect to them was that businessmen who got Government millions in armament orders could hardly object to continued and even intensified regulation, especially if it were in the name of National Defense. Public health, housing, power, all could be tied to Rearmament-for-uplift, and Franklin Roosevelt would...
...averse to military spending, such professionals as Messrs. Craig and Leahy of course prefer professional planning. In the tremendously increased Army Air Corps, antiaircraft defenses and other armaments projected by Corcoran & Co., they foresee fundamental changes in balance between Army and Navy, between related branches of the Army...