Summaries of Telephone Conversations

CO SUMMARY Washington, D. C. July 23, 1945 3:40pm JUSTICE HUGO BLACK to CORCORAN who is not in but will return about 4:00 P.M. when he is to contact BLACK at Temple 4081. 3:50pm CORCORAN to BENNETT CLARK. (Senator from Missouri at Mayflower Hotel) The following conversation took place. TC--Bennett? BC--Yeah. TC--Now, Bennett, something has broken on the LEVER case. can you come over and meet WORTH (CLARK ?) and myself? BC--Well, I can't right now, Tom. TC--Well, can WORTH and I come over and meet you? BC--Sure. TC--Suppose we come over at 4:30. That is a half an hour from now. That gives you time to finish off what you are doing Now let me tell you what they have done. I want you to be thinking about this. I have just met CLINT ANDER- SON (Secretary of Agriculture) for the second time today. He finally said to me this afternoon at the SNYDER swearing in: "Well, there just came up on my desk this morning an award for the Manhattan Case with three years retroactive but we figure out that the Manhattan Case was about two million five hundred thousand pounds so what you get is about eight million pounds on a three year basis. " Now, what that means is that they have admitted that we are entitled to it. They've admitted the application of the Manhattan formulae; they have applied it retroactively from the time we first asked for it. Now if we can play this game mathe- matically right we have got our twenty four million easy. We will be over. 3:55pm CORCORAN to LEO CROWLEY at Federal Deposit. The following con- versation took place: LC--Hello. TC--Leo, I just want to tell you and I thought you'd like to know that CLINT ANDERSON spoke to me when we were over there. LC--Yeah. TC--And he made a beginning offer of a third of what we wanted (in the LEVER case ?). But it is interesting that he made the offer and I thought you ought to know it and wanted to thank you for it. LC--Well, I talked to him a little over there today and I told him we've got a problem on fats and oils and we got a cut back on liberated areas. And just between us I'm willing to do that, Tom, if it's necessary in our own economy here. TC--Yeah. LC-So that will 11 bring us very close together on a lot of these things in the next few days. TC--Now, did you have a good lunch today?