Word: corking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...