Summaries of Telephone Conversations

Washington, D. C. October 24, 1945 CO SUMMARY 8:16 AM TOM CORCORAN to D. WORTH CLARK. They discuss business and then mention LEONARD LYONS, a patent attorney for oil interests in California. WORTH CLARK continues: WC - LEONARD's been in town the last week. I've been out to dinner with him a couple of times, and one thing and another. Well, he was chuck full of funny information, and told FRANCIS (THOMAS) and said that whoever was after you as--just that they were not gonna stop with these articles; that this was just a starter and that they were gonna keep things rollin' with Mr. T. S. in the newspapers, and-- TC - Who's T. S? WC - TOM STOKES. And that so and so and so and so. Well, I said, "FRANCIS, did you get any concrete information?" He said, "WORTH, I didn't. It was just one of those things and LEONARD (LYONS) is awfully well acquainted around town here and he's a very staunch Republican and they were just talking." LEONARD is still in town and I'm gonna find out if I get a chance to get FRANCIS to get hold of him and see if he can't get some more concrete information on it. So, of course, every doggoned enemy we've got has been apparently capitalizing on these, but it won't help a darned bit. Because I was out to JACK LeCOURSE's (phonetic) for dinner last night and that old bird is pretty cagey and he was so damned mad about the whole thing. He said they're just overplaying their hand and he said he was amazed at the Saturday Evening Post for carrying them and he was telling that in a fairly select and in- fluential company. So all it's done--it's just forming a division of choosing up sides. TC - But I do suspect that they'll be another run and I think it's this thing of MAC's that's gonna bring it, too. WC - Well, now I had a long talk, after I left you yesterday afternoon, with BILL DOLPH. And BILL's prepared to go to town with FULTON (LEWIS, Jr.?) on Mr. P. and all the rest, and also on-- TC - Who's Mr. P.? WC - Mr. (ED?) PAULEY. And also on BOB HANNEGAN. And I'm getting just a little annoyed at Mr. HANNEGAN. And so, he's starting out today to collect a dossier and so forth which will be ready for use when the time comes. And--now, he's particularly interested in what happened in this consent decree (moving picture companies?) up in New York because he gets it through his connections up there that when the matter was presented in some preliminary argument or something that Mr. TOM CLARK has sent up some very, very weak, obviously incompetent subordinate who gets up against Mr. JOHN W. DAVIS and, in other words, just throws the damned case. And apparently, it's been arranged that way that that would--in other words, that the A. G. would go ahead and prosecute it, bring it again, but it would just be thrown like a baseball game. And that