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...hired at $50 a week by the George Batten Co. in 1928, just before its merger with Barton, Durstine & Osborn. His hard-slogging work habits and a slogan-making command of the language propelled him through BBDO's ranks as he worked on ad campaigns for Armstrong Cork, Servel, B. F. Goodrich and Cellophane. He became the agency's chief idea man in 1946, a member of the executive committee...
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT is now studying talks between onetime New Dealer-Wheeler Thomas G. ("Tommy the Cork") Corcoran and three members of Federal Power Commission in a case involving Tennessee Gas Transmission Co. (TIME, April 4). Between 1954 and 1958, he collected $305,907 for legal services and expenses from the company...
...House hearing on influence peddling in Washington, an old Washington figure bobbed up last week in a somewhat new role. His name: Thomas G. ("Tommy the Cork") Corcoran, lawyer and onetime brain-truster who had drafted much of the New Deal legislation during the '305. Federal Power Commissioner Jerome K. Kuykendall testified at the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee hearing that a gas-company representative (later identified as Tommy the Cork) had tried to influence him in a case involving the Midwestern Gas Transmission Co., a wholly owned subsidiary of the giant Tennessee Gas Transmission...
Higher Rates. After the FPC examining staff had recommended a 6¼% return, Corcoran phoned Kuykendall, although the Cork was not listed as the Midwestern attorney for the case, and pleaded for the higher rate. The committee wondered: Why didn't Kuykendall hang up on him? Answered Kuykendall, a Republican appointed by Ike: "By the time I knew what he was talking about, he had said it. I didn't talk to him. He talked to me. How could I prevent...
...Fees. Other records showed that Tommy the Cork was a fairly familiar name to the FPC. Back in 1957, Tennessee Gas had been granted more than an $8,000,000 rate increase. For Corcoran's help in getting the increase, Tennessee Gas paid his law firm $60,444. The Chicago law firm of Jake Arvey, Illinois political kingpin, Democratic national committeeman, and an Adlai Stevenson stalwart in 1952 and 1956, got $15,000. Since neither was listed as attorney in the case, the FPC examiner who had recommended the increase wanted to know what they had done...