Summaries of Telephone Conversations

Washington, D. C. CO SUMMARY July 30, 1945 8:40 AM Senator CLAUDE PEPPER to CORCORAN asking that CORCORAN "delay his arrival about 15 minutes. O.K. 8:49 AM CORCORAN to Senator WHEELER at EMerson 1680. CORCORAN will see WHEELER at 4:00 P.M. today. WHEELER will go home Thursday. 9:01 AM YOUNGMAN, at CORCORAN's home, to Room 746, Mayflower Hotel, to A. F. WOODWORTH (or possibly ARTHUR E. WOODY, Tariff Commission ?). They talk about where YOUNGMAN's car is left. "WOODY" will let YOUNGMAN know "how he comes out down there." 10:00 AM Secretary ICKES to CORCORAN. CORCORAN asked for luncheon date with ICKES at 1:00 P.M. today. O.K. 10:02 AM GEORGE McNULTY (possibly GEORGE ALBERT McNULTY, Washington Attorney, who specializes in SEC and other federal cases) to MISS DE FALCO stating he has a board meeting and can't see CORCORAN. However, he said, DE FALCO should contact his hotel where he will leave word where he can be reached. O.K. 10:20 AM CORCORAN to JOHN SONNETT at Navy Department, Extension 63153, stating he wants to see him. They agree to meet tomorrow at 9:00 A.M. CORCORAN said he was having dinner with TOM CLARK (Attorney General) tonight. SONNETT said he may see CORCORAN about 6:00 P.M. tonight. 10:55 AM CORCORAN to General HAROLD R. HARRIS, ATC, War Department, Extension 2211. CORCORAN congratulated him upon becoming a General. 11:00 AM CORCORAN to WILLIAM MALONEY (phonetic) who is not in. MALONEY is in New York, and can be reached at Bridgehampton 390 out on Long Island. 11:20 AM CORCORAN to WORTH CLARK asking when CLINT ANDERSON (Secretary of Agriculture) is leaving for the West. He is leaving on Thursday. CORCORAN said JIM BRENNAN was told by MRS. DIAMOND that ANDERSON is leaving at 1:00 P.M. tomorrow. CORCORAN said he was going to tell Levers a "little white one 1: that he had seen ANDERSON over the weekend and now ANDERSON wants to meet CORCORAN when ANDERSON returns. CORCORAN says he thinks he can get another 2 million pounds. CLARK, who was at home, will see CORCORAN after lunch today. 11:25 AM DWIGHT PALMER (President, General Cable Corporation ?) in New York, to CORCORAN. CORCORAN said he got down to see CRAWFORD yesterday and "We're going to work it through the Smaller War Plants." He said he saw (MAURY) MAVERICK this morning, "who owes me three or four." DWIGHT said there are no little plants in our line getting any business. CRAWFORD told CORCORAN to keep away from the Treasury on this thing. They then discuss PALMER's son, DWIGHT, who has been in the Army for two and a half years and hasn't been promoted. CORCORAN said he had written a memo which one general had sent to another, and PERSONS should get some action on it sure and he perhaps won't have to go to the Pacific war.