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    "ocrText": "- 3 -\n1:11 PM\nCORCORAN to DR. LUDWIK RAJCHMAN at MIchigan 1213, his home. The\nfollowing conversation took place:\nTC - Doctor, I had breakfast with EDWARD BURLING (Of Covington, Burling,\nRublee, Acheson and Shorb Law Firm) this morning, the head of\nCovington, Burling, and he said held take the Polish thing on.\nLR - Fine!\nTC - Now, Doctor, this is the wisest--this is DEAN ACHESON'S partner,\nof course.\nLR - I know.\nTC - But this is the wisest, ablest lawyer in this town and one of the\nwisest, ablest fellows in the world.\nLR - Fine, fine!\nTC - So you call him and tell him that I called you and he'll take it.\nLR - Fine!\nTC - And I suggested that he could use \"SHAGGY\" (LT. QUINN SHAUGHNESSY\nof O.S.S.) to run around on it. Because you will need some legs.\nLR - Sure!\nTC - But he said he'd take it for you and he'd be very interested and\nI went over the situation of the different economic status of Poland\nsince you got Silesia, Stetten and Danzig, and all the rest of it.\nNow this (BURLING) is an able fellow. You couldn't have anything\nbetter and he's willing to take it over. He's got too much to do\nbut he said he'd cut and chuck and do this himself. So there you\nare, sir. I've never done anything better for you.\nLR - Splendid! I'm awfully grateful. No, you could have done something\nbetter.\n(CORCORAN laughs)\nYou could have accepted it yourself.\nTC - Oh, I'm not good at that. SHAGGY's back, by the way.\nLR - Oh, I see. We heard that you would sign on SHAGGY.\nTC - Well, what SHAGGY will do gonna keep SHAGGY sort of operating\non his own. But SHAGGY will--SHAGGY is a classmate of BURLING'S son\nand BURLING'S son has just come out of the Army and has come back and\nwill probably work on this too. What I want to do is--I want to have\nsomebody like SHAGGY who hasn't yet got tangled up in other things.\nI mean, the problem is always in this town to get somebody's time\nand SHAGGY's new and he's not tangled up. And that's why I suggested\nto him SHAGGY and his own son. All right, Doctor, you can find him\n(BURLING) in the telephone book.\n2:15 PM\nCORCORAN to BEN SONNENBERG, Wickersham 2-3930, New York City. CORCORAN\nsaid, \"My Chinaman has been held over\" and so CORCORAN did not get away.\nCORCORAN must wait until SOONG leaves town before coming to New York City.\nCORCORAN said that CHENNAULT (General of Flying Tigers) is going on a\nlecture tour and CARL GETTS is his publicity man. CORCORAN asked BEN\nto check on GETTS and call him and tell him who the best man in the\npublicity business is. CORCORAN said that he is having dinner with CHENNAULT\ntonight.\n3:03 PM\nCORCORAN to GEORGE KILLIOM of Democratic National Committee. They discuss\nif either has had any luck re getting the President to accept the resigna-\ntion of WARNER. Both said they haven't had any luck, but KILLIOM will\nknow soon."
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