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    "ocrText": "- 2 -\n10:35 AM\nTOM CORCORAN to BILL BAILEY in the office of Senator GUFFEY. TOM said,\n\"BILL, that was a swell letter you wrote. What's the chances of getting\nMr. V to do the same thing.\" BILL said that he was going to give Mr. V\na copy of the letter to take with him on the floor. TOM said that if they\ncould get a Republican it would help them very much. (Mr. V evidently\nrefers to Senator VANDENBERG).\n10:45 AM\nTOM CORCORAN to EDWARD PRICHARD at Treasury.\nTC - PRICH, on that subject we were talking about last night--some shifts\nthat might go around here--if STU (SYMINGTON) was shifted to some-\nthing else, the right man to put in the place he would leave would be\nthis fellow CLARENCE AVILSON (phonetic) who was head of this new\nbusiness committee of THURMAN ARNOLD; but who also was the guy for\nNED BURLING--did a hell of a lot of operating in that Surplus after\nthe last war and--who's a little business. He and BURLING fell out.\nEP - I know him. You had him on TNEC. He's one of your puppets. Well,\nI'm for him.\nTC - Well, I mean, he knows that Surplus game. That's how he made his\nand NED's fortune after the last war.\n10:51 AM\nBOB HINCKLEY to TOM CORCORAN. HINCKLEY did not buy the stock. TOM said,\n\"That name for ED has been recommended as president of that bank and he's\nrecommending you as Assistant to the Secretary.\" TOM added that VINSON\nhad gone to the President with both of the names.\n11:32 PM\nTOM CORCORAN to FRANK at R.F.C. TOM said that he is interested in what\nwill happen to carbon black plants--particularly Continental, Panhandle\nand D.P.C. plants. TOM wants to know who to see in order to get a ,better\ntrade with D.P.C. FRANK said that JERRY HESTER, Extension 1233, would\nhandle it. TOM told JERRY that he wanted to talk about dropping the\nrentals on. these plants. TOM said that both firms that he represents,\nwant to work with O.P.A. under the new setup but now with the pool\ndropping out will make it exhorbitant. TOM said that Mr. WISHNICK,\nowner of one plant, wants an appointment with HESTER. O.K. They'll\nmeet at 12:30 today at Room 965 of the Lafayette.\n11:37 AM\nD. WORTH CLARK to TOM CORCORAN asking if TOM got the \"candidate advisor.\"\nNo. CLARK is having lunch with PAYNE at the Statler today and wants\nthis information beforehand. CLARK said that in the afternoon tomorrow\nhe wants CLARK, CORCORAN, SMATHERS and MOONEY to meet. O.K.\n8:45 PM\nTOM CORCORAN to LEO CROWLEY at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.\nCORCORAN said that re a third person he said \"it is the most disastrous\nsituation he could conceive of if it didn't get straightened out; next\nto the fellow who is coming back tomorrow (BEN COHEN) and even in excess\nof him, you are the only fellow who could help them down there. He had\ndoubts that the settlements could be gotten thru even with all that help.\nSaid with you gone it would be disastrous and I'm telling you that it is\nnot going to happen. CORCORAN said he told him that he said he should\nsee to it that nothing happens until the fellow coming back gets back and\nlet him try to handle it, also get an understanding from the other fellow"
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