Summaries of Telephone Conversations

Washington, D. C. CO SUMMARY October 1, 1945 7:30 AM TOM CORCORAN to JOSH LEE. TC - So far as I know he has gone, has he? JI - So far as I know, yes. TC - Well, then, that's fine. The other thing I wanted to tell you is that the name that's on the top of the list now to be a partner of yours is this fellow STANBAUGH out in North Dakota. JL - Oh, yes, he was a Legionaire. He's a fairly good friend of mine. Yes, I think he would be all right. TC - I'd rather have CRUM. JL - Yes, I think this fellow would be inclined to watch the party line pretty close, I think. TC - And he would be North-West's man and nobody else's. I just wanted to pass that on. JL - That's right. Why can't we get (BARTLEY) CRUM. TC - Maybe we ought to start to try. JL - Say, on this other, I wonder if I couldn't turn one of these loose and one to my boy down there, NORMAN (phonetic). TC - Sure, I should think so. JL - Well, I think he has gone. I called over there Saturday and there was no response. And I haven't heard anything. If he hadn't I imagine I'd have heard a yell. TC - Yeah, of course, the minute you turn that one loose down there, would it go through a local bank? JL - Yeah, it would be all by--it would just as--I mean--it might just as well turn it loose here for that matter. TC - Do people down there know him, know the maker? JL - No, uh, uh. Would-anybody know that either; just when it reached the New York one. But they, that would tip off, but with the dates on them and to hold them I couldn't hold them too far. They'd say why did you do that? TC - All right. 8:00 AM TOM CORCORAN told WORTH CLARK he is going down with BOB LaFOLLETTE and he is going to talk to him about LEO and about the Tidelands. He said the thing he was concerned about and wanted to talk to CLARK about was STANBAUGH. CLARK said there isn't much he can do about it. He thought he might talk to NYE but didn't think there was much could be done. CORCORAN ought to go to them and say that he needed the appointment to help him get reelected Senator later on and that he should say, "If you can't help me Lord, anyway don't help that bear." CORCORAN said LaFOLLETTE was there and he would talk to him on the way down. 9:10 AM TOM CORCORAN to ABE FORTAS' secretary who told him that the Secretary (ICKES) would be back Friday or Saturday. He then told ABE FORTAS that he rode down with BOB LaFOLLETTE and "took the AL FRIENDLY (phonetic) thing of yesterday." He said that BOB is probably the closest one to BARKLEY and that LaFOLLETTE "Was going to move in very hard before that meeting this morning to make sure the Secretary's request was granted. CORCORAN said that everything else is as good as we can make it. He said that the more he watches its repercussions the more he thinks the proclamation was a stroke of genius.