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    "ocrText": "3:35 PM\nMR. PANUCH to CORCORAN:\nP - TOM! You talked about PRITCH the other day. Are you absolutely\nsure he's on our team?\nC - Nope.\nP - Uh, huh.\nC - Where you talking from?\nP\n- The office - so - the reason I check up, being a cautious guy - so\nforth and so on, and I'm just wondering, in view of our lack of success\nwith VINSON to whether someone is throwing a block - whether it was\nPRITCH or KELLEY. It could have been either. They're absolutely\nvicious on CROWLEY and have ruined CROWLEY with VINSON.\nC - You mean (PAUL) KELLEY (Office of Economic Stabilization) too?\nP\n- Yeah! Both of them. That came out yesterday; they had a very\nimportant letter for clearance with shipment\nC - Just one minute will you\njust one minute\nwhat happened?\nP - They had a deal on for the release of some Argentine \"Maze\" oil,\nfats and oils, etc.; there's some shortage on the things in return\nfor some fuel oil. CROWLEY and ICKES don't want to send or sell any\nfuel, etc., and it was up to CROWLEY to document the damn thing and\nVINSON told our guy, who was over there writing and processing the\nletters, that he hoped to Christ's sake, they better talk jobs to\nCOX about this, and he said you can't get anything out of CROWLEY\nbut double talk; and then, when he talked about this report from the\nBUREAU of the BUDGET to the PRESIDENT on cleaning up FEA, why VINSON\nseemed quite enthusiastic for it, and quite unsympathetic to CROWLEY\nand SO a very good hatchet job on CROWLEY has been done by VINSON.\nC - These two things happened yesterday?\nP\n- Yep. I know how PRITCH feels about CROWLEY.\nC - Oh, I know that.\nP - And as for the other thing. When I saw VINSON at the meeting about a\nweek ago, I definitely got the impression he was ill at ease as far as\nI was concerned. I feel he may have a guilty conscience on it. so I\nknow someone is throwing a block.\nC - Whatever I have done in that direction, you may be sure I have understood\nthe things you are talking about.\nP - Well, fine I'm not criticizing your judgment, but I'm trying to check\nmy own feeling as to whether you feel as I do, or whether you have a\nreasonable doubt as TOM POWELL used to say.\nC - O.K., fine.\n3:38 PM\nCORCORAN to LEO CROWLEY:\nT - WORTH is playing poker with CLINT tonight. Have you heard anything more?\nL - Suppose I give him a little bit of a buzz right now, before WORTH sees\nhim. How are you?\nT - I'm all right, and I understand you're sitting pretty right now too.\nL - We got our bill through unanimously, you know.\nT - Yes, I know you did.\nL - I was up to lunch this noon up in (LESLIE) BIFFLE's office with FRED\n(VINSON) and JOHN SNYDER and (SENATOR) BARKLEY and WALLACE WHITE (Senator\nfrom Maine) and all them. And fellows like WALLACE WHITE didn't do any\ndamage."
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