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...Deal; of a pulmonary blood clot; in Washington, D.C. Corcoran, who had once served as law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, became an influential member of F.D.R.'s brain trust. Nicknamed "Tommy the Cork" by Roosevelt, Corcoran served as a presidential speechwriter and liaison with Congress, and helped write the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. He was one of Roosevelt's key aides in the Chief Executive's losing battle in 1937 to add six more Justices to the U.S. Supreme Court. Corcoran went into private...
...Salem farmer, is tortured by the need to prove to himself and to his truly unstained wife Elizabeth that he is, in fact, a good man. As the witch trials become a raging mania in Salem, Proctor becomes inextricably involved, dragging all his past failings to light--including his liaison a year before with Abigail Williams, the girl accusing the Salem women of witchcraft--but can finally do nothing except die for his beliefs...
...liaison committee hopes to generate more student involvement in running the concentration, members of the committee said. A similar committee "fizzled out" three years ago, Budd added...
...newly formed Social Studies student liaison committee will preside over its first general concentrators' meeting this Sunday to discuss student proposals for improving the concentration...
Elections for the six liaison committee members--two from each class--were held two weeks ago, with a turnout of about 60 per cent, Budd said. Besides Budd, elected members include Patricia I. Hansen '82, Robert A. Simins '82, M. Todd Collins '83, Adam S. Cohen '84 and Elizabeth Eisold...