Word: mulligans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tammany had its full share of silver-tongued orators, and the greatest of them was William Bourke Cockran ("the Mulligan Guard Demosthenes"), who in 1895 befriended young Sandhurstman Winston Churchill. Through later years Churchill mentioned "the great American orator Bourke Cockran" so often that Lady Churchill threatened to walk off the platform if she heard the name again. A typical flight of Cockran's soaring speech: "The dweller in the tenement house, stooping over his bench, who never sees a field of waving corn, who never inhales the perfume of grasses and of flowers, is yet made the participator...
...clear in my mind and conscience," Talbott insisted, "that my actions have been within the bounds of ethics." He still saw nothing wrong in writing letters on official stationery to solicit business for his partner, Paul Mulligan, an efficiency expert. Talbott, who cleared some $65,000 a year from Mulligan & Co. while in office, planned to get right back to work. Said he: "I'm going back to business and make myself a little dough...
After talking to Talbott, Mulligan told Ewing that the Air Force Secretary was upset and disturbed regarding the position taken by R.C.A. Then, Ewing testified, in early January, "I received a telephone call from Washington from a man who identified himself as the general counsel of the Air Force, Mr. John A. Johnson . . . He said that he had understood that R.C.A. was troubled about this proposed contract with Mulligan & Co. and that he was pre pared to write a letter opinion and give it to R.C.A. stating that he saw no legal reason why the contract could not be entered...
...individual speaking identi fied himself as Secretary Talbott. He was talking quite rapidly and, among other things, he told me or listed over the phone the names of a number of other companies that he said were doing work for the Air Force that had contracts with the Mulligan Co. ... He said that 'if all of these other companies could take contracts with Mulligan & Co., why was R.C.A. acting so high and mighty . . .' His tone of voice was forceful, and it seemed that he wanted some action...
...efforts to get action, the testimony showed, overbearing Harold Talbott even instructed Counsel Johnson to get a ruling on the propriety of a Mulligan-R.C.A. contract from Attorney General Brownell. But Brownell declined, informing Talbott personally that it was not within the Attorney General's province to take such action. Only then did Secretary Talbott cease in his efforts to round up R.C.A. for Mulligan & Co. Even his close friends granted that all this did not amount to saying, "My goodness, forget...