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    "ocrText": "- 2 -\n3:15pm\nCORCORAN to MR. (ALFRED T.) HOBSON at R.F.C., EXecutive 3111.\nCORCORAN asked if JOHN or CHICK is in town. HOBSON said that\nJOHN is but that CHICK won't be in town for about 3 weeks. HOBSON\nthen said that a friend of TOM's wanted to talk to him, and an\nunidentified man came on and asked TOM if he'd like to be chair-\nman of the S.E.C. CORCORAN said he would for $100,000.00 \"after\ntaxes.\" CORCORAN asked if the man and GANTZ (GANSON PURCELL,\nChairman of S.E.C. ?) are having trouble. The man said they\nalways are having trouble. CORCORAN asked if DAVE (CORCORAN) had\ncontacted the man and he replied not yet. Man will call CORCORAN\ntomorrow morning about lunch together tomorrow.\n3:20pm\nMAX TRUITT, of Cummings and Stanley (Law Firm) to CORCORAN.\nCORCORAN said he heard \"your boy friend's (JOHN SNYDER ?) name\"\nmentioned yesterday in DON RUSSELL's office as a successor to\nVINSON as Director of War Mobilization and TOM wondered if he\nwanted it. MAX said HANNEGAN was \"red hot\" for him for the\nTreasury job and even for \"any job he'll take for the simple\nreason he's strongly in favor of getting all the strength we can\nand he frankly didn't think the guy would get any Congressional\ndistricts carried for us next November. CORCORAN said, \"You\nmean FRED?\" and MAX said, \"Yeah.\" TOM said, \"Well, there was\nanother inside track. I've always told you about that, it was so\ninside that it was certain to go through.\" MAX said, \"Yeah,\nSAM, \" and CORCORAN agreed. MAX stated that SAM failed because\nhe \"didn't get his name sent up and it's worrying the poor guy\nto death.\" TOM said there \"was no worry about it\" whereupon MAX\nsaid that \"GEORGE (KILLIOM ?) is mad, SNYDER is heartbroken and\nthe other guy wasn't for him in the first place.\" TOM stated,\n\"You mean JOHN SNYDER wasn't for him. He wanted it for himself,\ndidn't he?\" MAX said, \"Why sure, he's heart broken. And I think\nwith a good deal of justification. Here he was all set to be\nmade president of that bank on June 1 and that was a lifetime\njob with $60,000.00 on the line every year as a minimum. I'm\nsure he thought he was gonna get that. Although I think he's\nsuch a good loyal fellow, he'll just keep his mouth shut and go\nright on.\" TOM said, \"Well, SAM (RAYBURN ?) was too strong for\nit; SAM's got two now, TOM (?) CLARK and VINSON. MAX said,\n\"I don't think SAM got CLARK.\" TOM stated, \"He says he did.\"\nTRUITT: \"Well, I think the fellow that got him (TOM CLARK ?)\nis a man in St. Louis by the name of ADOLPHUS BUSCH (Phon.) the\nThird, who has tremendous Texas interests and he has a fellow\nnamed TONY BEAUFORT (Phon.) who is an extremely powerful political\nguy.\" CORCORAN believes BURTON will get the next Supreme Court\nappointment. MAX tells him the rumor he and JIM BARNES are going\ninto partnership is wrong. BARNES is with THURMAN HILL (Phon.).\nformerly of the Treasury. CORCORAN says (ABE) FORTAS is joining\nTHURMAN ARNOLD."
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