Word: partner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reasons more tough-minded and lawyerlike than his critics credit. From his point of view, the firm of Corcoran & Cohen started out to do a job for a client -the President of the United States. If remaking the Democratic Party is part of that job, Partner Corcoran is well up to learning and playing politics tooth & nail...
...firm's long-range objective is to put through and then defend the Client's social legislation. Since they wrote a lot of it, it is natural that their fight for it is personally motivated, for even lawyers have emotions. Partner Cohen says: "If we have to become propagandists, we were driven to it." When Senator Tydings of Maryland or Senator George of Georgia snarls at "two little Wall Street lawyers who want the power to say who shall or shall not be Senators," they know well that their quarrel is not with Lawyers Corcoran & Cohen but with...
...hatchet-work of primary politics, rugged, mercurial Tommy the Cork is the partner who is getting it done. (Shy, cool Partner Cohen jaunted to Europe last week.) Putting inde-goddam-pendent journalists up to playing his game is one of his methods. The journalistic team of Drew Pearson & Robert S. Allen are Tom Corcoran's natural mouthpieces; his temperature and blood pressure are accurately reflected in what they have to say to their syndicate readers daily. This is not just because Allen is the Neanderthal type of Liberal and Pearson the parlor mauve type-a perfect team-but because...
...Cotton Ed." and they know he cannot live forever. If he dies with his Senatorial boots on. Mr. Maybank may slip into them and Jimmy Byrnes (who, coming from Spartanburg, would be embarrassed if Spartanburg's Olin Johnston became South Carolina's other Senator) will be senior partner of the team of Byrnes & Maybank...
...tale of proletarian brutality, Of Mice and Men, had netted Covici-Friede about $35,000. How much Steinbeck was considered to be worth by publishers was disclosed last week when his contract was sold for $15,000 to Viking Press, which in addition gave Publisher Pascal Covici a job. (Partner Donald Friede withdrew three years...