Summaries of Telephone Conversations

Washington, D. C. CO SUMMARY August 24, 1945 4:07 PM CORCORAN told (JAMES) McGRANERY (Department of Justice) that his younger brother may be on his way back in two weeks. CORCORAN said, "You remember I had something in mind for him." McGRANERY said, "Yes." CORCORAN said he thinks he can get it for him but CORCORAN first wants him to get back his old job as Assistant to District Attorney under his veteran's privilege, even though he was made an Acting District Attorney by court order. McGRANERY thinks he can get his assistant's job back but will check and contact TOM. McGRANERY said he is going to Atlantic City tonight. M - I saw your friend BELL the other day. My neighbor up there. He said he was down talking to you the other day and had quite a chat. He got his pictures in all those pictures up there with his client, you know. C - Who is his client? M - NUCKY (phonetic) (laughs). C - Is NUCKY his client? M - Sure, I told you that. C - That's right. M - I told FRANCIS (BIDDLE ?) (Former Attorney General) that we ought not let him out. Then you talked to me and I told that guy down there you had. C - Yeah. M - And I said I had changed my mind about that and I was going to do it and then I told him just how we would handle it and he came down here and spilled the old apple cart and told them all down at the parole board just what I had said. C - Oh, my God! M - So we got it back on base and I told him again, he was very much worried and upset about it. I told him come the middle of August we'll do it so don't worry too much about it. So he got his pictures and he has been in fine fettle now. C - I don't know if it is such fine fettle. M - (Laughs) Neither do I. It is politically around there but anywhere else no good. C - Yeah, it worries me about some other things. M - Yeah, I think it would have been better if he had kept down and out of it, but he was in it hook, line and sinker. C - Yeah, ok. M - The other thing is in good shape I believe. C - Well, I assume it is. M - Yeah. 4:55 PM WORTH CLARK to CORCORAN. He stated that on Alton the report is in with a favorable recommendation for immediate certification from the director in St. Louis. Charleston and Huntington are being handled together in Cincinnati and a report on them is expected in two or three days. HUSTON told OSCAR SMITH to tell WORTH, HUSTON being in a Board meeting, that relative to the Streeter consent elections, the regional director in Chicago has sole power to decide and that they have been "stepping on him'r