Summaries of Telephone Conversations

Washington, D. C. October 12, 1945 CO SUMMARY 9:50 AM TOM CORCORAN to LEO CROWLEY. The following conversation took place: TC - LEO, I had a talk with DONALD (RUSSELL?) yesterday and he thought this thing was working out all right. He said you'd talked to him about the part he was to play in it. IC - That's right. TC - But, of course, the suggestion would have to come from somebody other than himself. IC - That's right. TC - Now, have you heard anything about it? IC - No. I'll have to call you back TOM. TC - Yeah. Now, the other thing - - IC - Where are you-at the office? TC - Yeah. LC - Let me call you. TC - The other thing I want to tell you is that TAYLOR put SUI BEY (phonetic) off until today at 10 o'clock. LC of Until today-- until 10 o'clock? TC - Yeah. I mean about 10 minutes. HANNEGAN talked to TAYLOR? LC - Yea. TC - O.K. IC - All right. 9:50 AM Mrs. BEHAN unsuccessful in reaching Senator BARKLEY for CORCORAN. 10:53 AM CLEM CLAUDY (phonetic) to CORCORAN. CLEM will send the geese to TOM'S house later. TOM will use them for a birthday party for BILL DOUGLAS on Tuesday. TOM said, "This thing has been pushed to the nth degree in the R.F.C." CLEM asked if JOHN McCLINTOCK is back and TOM said no. TOM said that JOHN was formerly business assistant to NELSON ROCKEFELLER, and that he (McCLINTOCK) is working for a Latin-American corporation that "my brother and myself have set up and he's on his way, into the deep South America where you can really sell those things. You see VERN SELLER (phonetic) has only, gone as far as Colombia and Venezuela. This boy (JOHN) is an expert on Brazil and Uraguay and the Argentine. He's going down and I wanted him to see that stuff to see what he could do to sell, to tie that up with big Brazilian and Argentine capital on his way down." CLEM said that VERN would be back the first of next week. CORCORAN said that DAVE (CORCORAN), who is going to South America, wants to see VERN too. CLEM said that VERN has been in France. 11:58 AM Mr. TOM GLAYVIN (phonetic), of Agriculture Department, to MAC WRIGHT, saying he can't learn there is any move in the Department of Agriculture to take fats and oils off quota and make them open to purchase by all processors. He said perhaps the "boys at the top" have SO decided but he hasn't heard of it yet and, furthermore, he feels such an action will not come until "the first (part) of the year. GLAYVIN will keep WRIGHT posted.