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Convinced of his own honesty, increasingly active in the political councils of the "Kitchen Cabinet" (Messrs. Corcoran, James Roosevelt, Joe Keenan et al.), and increasingly convinced of his right to play a part in politics, Harry Hopkins replies to such attacks: "They can call names just so often. I know a lot of adjectives my self and I am going to start in pretty soon...
...monopoly investigation-whose first subject is likely to be Big Steel-got going. What was more, Big Steel's young Chairman Edward R. Stettinius Jr. made the announcement just before Franklin Roosevelt's fireside chat, then had dinner with Franklin Roosevelt's close advisor Tom Corcoran and several members of the Business Advisory Council. The President thereupon commented that he was "gratified to know that this reduction in prices has involved no wage...
...Catholics, the A.F of L. and reputedly by Boss Jim Farley, stormed up & down the State denouncing "this gang of political termites . . . boring from within . . . planning on taking over, if possible, the control of the Democratic party organization in 1940." Along with' Harry Hopkins he damned Tommy Corcoran, Congressman Maury Maverick of Texas, Homer Martin of the C.I.O. and Communist Earl Browder as other non-lowans who had unrighteously butted in by endorsing Mr. Wearin. He referred to his vote against the President's Supreme Court bill as "my crime . . . which has brought down upon...
...Prove it, said the press. Ask anybody-ask Harry Hopkins, said Mr. Wearin. To Mr. Hopkins went the press, but he would say nothing. Then Mr. Hopkins changed his mind. Washington newshawks were fairly well satisfied that he had been spoken to by adroit, finagling Tommy Corcoran of the President's political staff. His pressagent called in able Correspondent Richard L. Wilson of the potent Des Moines Register and Tribune. Wilson wrote out what Mr. Hopkins said to him and handed it back for approval: "If I were still voting in Iowa,I would vote for Wearin...
...Appeals to require testimony whether the three NLRB members had themselves read and digested the 2,000,000 words of Ford testimony taken by subordinates; whether, before the finding was issued, the Board or its officers had consulted Labor Leaders John L. Lewis and Homer Martin, New Dealers Thomas Corcoran and Benjamin Victor Cohen. Unhappy Mr. Fahy quickly asked leave to withdraw the Ford order, whereupon the board would issue a "preliminary" finding, make it available to Mr. Wood for argument, and again request the Circuit Court to enforce the amended order without reopening the entire case. While less than...