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...PWAdministrator Harold Ickes, Assistant to the Attorney General Joseph Keenan, Solicitor General Robert Houghwout Jackson, Assistant WPAdministrator David Niles, Presidential Secretary James Roosevelt, and two more : sometimes called "Washington Service Station,'' "The Twins of Evil," etc., but better identified as the Administration's unofficial legal firm, Corcoran & Cohen. These persons, with one or two more (see col. 2) constitute what in President Jackson's time was called the Kitchen Cabinet. No name more colorful than the Inner Circle has yet been given this Roosevelt II group - except General Hugh Johnson's accurate but awkward "White...
Head Janizaries. The early Brain Trust - Professors Moley, Tugwell, Warren, Berle, et al. - were economists. Among the Janizaries named above, not one is an economist. They are executives (Hopkins, Ickes), high-grade political go-betweens (Keenan, Niles, Son James) and smart lawyers (Jackson, Corcoran & Cohen). Among the President's original close advisers last winter were left only two economists, Adolf A. Berle Jr. (who resigned last fortnight†) and Leon Henderson, now attached to the Monopoly Investigation, member of the commission whose report last week on consumer incomes (see p. 59) is red-hot campaign ammunition. Only other original...
...running to New England last week to beg Maine to "get in step." Solicitor General Jackson, now busy getting ready for the Monopoly Investigation, for a time was Janizary No. 3, but none of these can match in energy, facility or ubiquitousness the front man in the firm of Corcoran & Cohen. With nothing to tie him down except a general job on RFC's legal staff, he can come & go on a thousand purge missions without being unduly publicized. President Roosevelt likes him, listens to him, laughs with him, trusts him. delegates him. This makes "Tommy the Cork...
Establishing the Wage-Hour law's constitutionality will be a major assignment of the U. S. Attorney General this fall and winter. He will be ably assisted by the President's famed law team of Tommy Corcoran & Ben Cohen. Administrator Andrews' choice of textiles as the first industry to regulate is really their choice, as the best industry in which to invite the law's test case. Reasons: 1) Textiles constitute a big section of "the nation's No. 1 economic problem" (the South). 2) Wage-hour conditions in the textile industry are notoriously vulnerable...
...August 1, Chairman Jesse Jones admonished all RFC employes to abstain from active politics, except voting. Presumably exempted: Special RFC Counsel Tommy Corcoran, top political cowboy for the White House, who does his campaigning not among voters but among politicians...