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    "ocrText": "11:15 AM CHARLES MERKESON to CORCORAN (Continued):\n\"he\" might be back for the vote. MERKESON said, \"He certainly ought to\nif he can because he missed all this hearing.\" CORCORAN said he would\nfind out \"another way\" when \"he\" will be back. MERKESON told CORCORAN\nthat he is going over to P.C.A. and will be there this afternoon.\n11:20 AM\nCORCORAN to Senator GUFFEY's office to MR. BILL BAILEY asking if he had\nlearned anything yet. Answer was no. BAILEY said he had tried to reach\nhim but couldn't. CORCORAN asked if BAILEY's boss' colleague (Senator\nPEPPER, Florida ?) would return from the southland to be available for the\nbill vote. CORCORAN said he didn't want to call himself and asked BAILEY\nto do it. BAILEY called and told CORCORAN, \"he's (expected back not later\nthan Monday and possibly tomorrow.\" CORCORAN told BAILEY to \"follow this\nother thing.\" O.K.\n11:40 AM\nMAC WRIGHT to MR. CLAYTON's office, State Department. He asked the girl\nto send to CORCORAN copies of the English translation of the two letters\nin Exhibit 2, mentioned on page 4 of CLAYTON's statement before the War\nMobilization Committee of the Senate. WRIGHT said CORCORAN had received\na copy of the statement and now wants the English translations of the\nletters in Exhibit 2. The girl will leave word for CLAYTON's secretary\nto that effect, and if it's possible to send them they will be sent and\nif not, CLAYTON's secretary will advise CORCORAN.\n12:05 PM\nCORCORAN unable to reach MR. JOHN SONNETT at REpublic 7500 (?), Extension\n63153. (Assistant to Secretary of Navy).\n12:10 PM\nJOHN CARUTHERS (phonetic) of the New York Times to CORCORAN. JOHN will be\nin CORCORAN's office at 10:00 A.M. tomorrow to see TOM about a piece he\n(CARUTHERS) is planning for the New York Times on BENJAMIN V. COHEN. JOHN\nalso said that he understood the Saturday Evening Post was doing an article\non CORCORAN and the latter said that ALVA JOHNSON was doing it.\n12:40 PM\nCORCORAN to COLONEL CHARLES L. KADES, Civil Affairs Division at War Department,\nasking him to lunch. KADES has another engagement. CORCORAN said he has\nto see KADES and may come over tonight.\n1:15 PM\nDR. RAJCHMAN (UNRRA) returned CORCORAN's call. CORCORAN asked him to go\nto lunch and DR. RAJCHMAN asked CORCORAN to come out there instead.\nCORCORAN accepted.\n4:00 PM\nMISS MURPHY in Admiral MCINTIRE'S office at Navy Department, to CORCORAN.\nShe said, \"I have his record before me.\" She also said, \"On April 7,\nshe wrote to President ROOSEVELT \" and in that letter, continued MISS MURPHY,\nshe said \"he is subject to sea sickness and feels he can work more\nefficiently ashore.\" CORCORAN asked MISS MURPHY if this was his first sea\nduty and MISS MURPHY said yes. He's been at Great Lakes, Naval Ammunition\nDepot at Hastings, Alabama, and then to sea. He's been at sea only a short\ntime. MISS MURPHY said that his file was turned over to the Bureau of\nPersonnel by the White House and the Bureau of Personnel wrote \"her\" and\ntold \"her\" that because of an acute shortage of Navy Medical Officers a\ntransfer would not be possible. CORCORAN said he was going to leave it\nalone."
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