Word: joes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
With 9,000 Americans to shepherd in England, with tangible U. S. business interests under his eye, with 150 Americans cabling from the U. S. daily for information on Athenia survivors, with British bigwigs to see, Franklin Roosevelt to keep informed, Joe Kennedy had a bigger job. Twice he had to make hard choices: on Tuesday, whether to get a haircut or have lunch (he chose haircut); on Wednesday, whether to get mad at the State Department or the Maritime Commission for delays in ordering South America-bound cruise ships to head for Europe instead (he chose Maritime Commission...
...Kennedy Way. The Maritime Commission operates today on a pattern Chairman Joe Kennedy laid out for it in 75 16-hour days-even as the Securities and Exchange Commission yet works along the lines he laid down in 431 work-crammed days...
...nine months he was president of the Film Booking Offices of America, for five months chairman of Keith-Albee-Orpheum, for six weeks special counsel to First National Pictures, for twelve weeks reorganizer of RCA, for 74 days special adviser to Paramount Pictures. Wherever he was, he was also Joe Kennedy, the Wall Street speculator, who once said: "Anyone can lose his shirt in Wall Street if he has sufficient capital and inside information...
...libel that the State Department is made up of "cookie-pushers" whose chief concern is the hang of their striped trousers, was just true enough to make many a grave, correct, dry-worded gentleman in the Department dislike the appointment of Joe Kennedy to London. They correctly foresaw such incidents as Kennedy's telling Queen Elizabeth to her face that she was "a cute trick." They did not foresee that Queen Elizabeth would be pleased and flattered beyond words...
Franklin Roosevelt had heard disturbing reports that Kennedy: 1) had 1940 ambitions, 2) had pleased British conservatives by telling them a "safe" man would be in the White House after 1940. Came the crisis, and Franklin Roosevelt decided not to change horses in midstream. Joe Kennedy had foretold the flood...