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...other bolter was genial, ruddy, white-haired John J. Dempsey, who for a year has served with restraint in Mr. Ickes' department as Under Secretary. An old friend of Terrible Harold. Mr. Dempsey denied that there had been any disagreement. He resigned, he said, because he had other plans...
...years ago, wealthy Mr. (then Congressman) Dempsey ran for the U.S. Senate from New Mexico. Behind him was a record as one of the most effective, best-liked legislators the House had seen in a blue moon. But his opponent, Senator Dennis Chavez, had a slick political machine. Dempsey lost, took the interim Interior job. Now he wanted to go back to New Mexico and run for Governor...
...spot left by 63-year-old Jack Dempsey was not vacant long. Into it the President lifted smart, big-eared, young (32) Abe Fortas, Memphis-born director of the Interior Department's power division. For Mr. Fortas it was a reward: a Yale Law School graduate, he has long and faithfully, often skillfully, served the New Deal-on AAA, SEC, PWA, as general counsel to the Bituminous Coal Commission, as bat boy on the Corcoran-Cohen team. Mr. Ickes will not find any difficulty in snuggling black-haired, esthetic-looking Mr. Fortas under his wing. He has long been...
...when describing the hills behind the Rose Bowl, and the fans loved him. At one World Series game, delayed by rain, he cheerfully draped his raincoat over himself and the mike and ad-libbed for 60 minutes in a downpour. Twenty-five million people heard him describe the Tunney-Dempsey long count, the broadcast he was proudest...
Said Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University: "I call it the 20th-century World War." Said onetime Heavyweight Champion Jack Dempsey: "That's a tough one. Let me think a minute. How about Fight to Live?" Letters poured into the White House carrying monosyllabic, polysyllabic, clever, solemn, simple, erudite, zippy and non-zippy words...