Word: keenan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Origin of the Purge. One evening late last winter, Harry Hopkins called the following men to his house in George town: PWAdministrator Harold Ickes, Assistant to the Attorney General Joseph Keenan, Solicitor General Robert Houghwout Jackson, Assistant WPAdministrator David Niles, Presidential Secretary James Roosevelt, and two more : sometimes called "Washington Service Station,'' "The Twins of Evil," etc., but better identified as the Administration's unofficial legal firm, Corcoran & Cohen. These persons, with one or two more (see col. 2) constitute what in President Jackson's time was called the Kitchen Cabinet. No name more colorful than...
Convinced of his own honesty, increasingly active in the political councils of the "Kitchen Cabinet" (Messrs. Corcoran, James Roosevelt, Joe Keenan et al.), and increasingly convinced of his right to play a part in politics, Harry Hopkins replies to such attacks: "They can call names just so often. I know a lot of adjectives my self and I am going to start in pretty soon...
...campaign that followed, Candidate Igoe made the most of whatever degree of White House partiality was shown by the facts that Assistant Attorney General Joe Keenan journeyed to Illinois to speak on his behalf and that pink-whiskered Senator James Hamilton Lewis gave him his public support. Candidate Lucas, who voted against Roosevelt on the Wages-&-Hours Bill, parried by sticking to the local issue of "Throw out the Bosses." In last week's balloting, as early reports came in from the metropolitan districts, Candidate Igoe rolled up an impressive lead of 70,000 votes which began to dwindle...
...proud of a lot of things. He's proud of his son Keenan, who is now playing with the "Room Service" company. He's proud of Mrs. Wynn who used to be "Miss America." He's proud of his comfortable cruiser, the "Sea-wynn." In a week "Hooray for What?" will go to New York, and everyone is working under strain including...
...asked who was his favorite actor. "Ed Wynn," came the prompt reply. And next to him? "My son, Keenan." Who was his favorite after his son? "Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne." Another favorite is Philadelphia. In his show, Ed invents a "brotherly love" gas. He wants to use it on everyone because . . . "then you'll all be like the people in Philadelphia...