Word: legality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...George town: 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...
...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" (as the President calls him*) sound like a shrewd, insinuating schemer-which he is -but for reasons more...
...socialistic because of the Crash." Revisiting Harvard in 1924, Ben Cohen walked into his old room. The current occupant was out. His name was Thomas Gardiner Corcoran. They did not meet until nine years later, when T. G. Corcoran had been for a year a cog in the legal staff of President Hoover's RFC. Ben Cohen had signed on to help James Landis draft the Securities Exchange Act. Thrown together on this job, Corcoran & Cohen have been inseparable since...
Eugene Meyer took him to Washington, and in the scrambled days of Mr. Hoover's exit and Mr. Roosevelt's advent, alert young Lawyer Corcoran made himself extremely useful as a personnel man to staff the new administrative agencies with legal talent. For this he was equipped by having run a placement bureau for Harvard Law graduates. Washington became full, and still is, of his "boys," who not only get work done the way he wants it but constitute an argus-eyed personal intelligence service. He particularly delights in drafting able sons of Tory fathers and infecting them...
...Collective agreements rest upon moral force rather than legal compulsion." Neither side wants law to back it up. Exception: wages (but only wages) in the weaving section of the cotton textile industry; in 1934, both sides sought an Act of Parliament which froze rates they had already collectively agreed upon. Cause: chiseling by unorganized employers and weavers...