Word: kean
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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AUSTIN GOLDSBOROUGH PATTERSON BARBOUR HALE REED BORAH HASTINGS ROBINSON CAPPER HATFTELD (Ind.) CAREY JOHNSON SCHALL COUZENS KEAN STEIWER CUTTING KEYES TOWNSEND DAVIS LA FOLLETTE VANDENBERG DICKINSON McNARY WALCOTT FESS NORBECK WHITE FRAZIER NORRIS GIBSON...
...hard, just, God-fearing man is Abram Kean. A devout Wesleyan Methodist, he neither drinks nor swears. Even if pious Newfoundland's law did not forbid it, he would no more think of letting one of his "swilers" (sealers) crack a seal's skull on Sunday than he would think of failing to impose a 10? fine for any cut or tear in a seal "sculp" (fat-lined pelt) one of them brought in. He got his first schooling after he was 25 and rose to be Minister of Marine & Fisheries in his country's Cabinet. Three...
...lists of Morgan "friends" who were cut into stock deals below the market included the names of New Jersey's Senator Kean, Massachusetts' Lieutenant Governor Gaspar Bacon, Edgar Rickard, business associate of Herbert Hoover, Arkansas' Harvey Couch, now on R. F. C., Connecticut's G. O. P. Boss John Henry Roraback. The only "friend" revealed as having turned down a Morgan offer on ethical grounds was Board Chairman Edward Grant Buckland of New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R. Partner Whitney made a spirited defense of his firm's practice on the ground that...
Edgar Rickard thought it was "outrageous" to link the names of Hoover and Morgan just because he (Rickard) was on the firm's list. Morgan "friends" were in the Senate (California's McAdoo, New Jersey's Kean), in the Hoover Cabinet (Secretary of the Navy Adams), in the Roosevelt Cabinet (Secretary of the Treasury Woodin), on the Supreme Court (Owen J. Roberts). The Republican party (Treasurer Nutt, New York National Committeeman Hilles) and the Democratic (onetime Chairman Raskob) were both involved. Declared the cautious Kansas City Times: "Those favored by Morgan were placed under obligation...
Died. Julian Halstead Kean, 78, lawyer, banker, utility head, brother of U. S. Senator Hamilton Fish Kean and of the late U. S. Senator John Kean; in Union...