Word: keenan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Edward Gearing Kemp for Joseph Keenan as special assistant to the Attorney General. Mr. Kemp, 52, and like Mr. Murphy a bachelor, is from St. Clair, Mich. He was with Mr. Murphy in the Philippines...
...team though they are, leave the game after the eighth inning to avoid the crush after the ninth. Last week that kind of discretion may have motivated the resignation of one of Franklin Roosevelt's most faithful and useful sub-Cabinet henchmen: chunky, chipmunk-cheeked Joseph Berry ("Joe") Keenan, 51, who was called from his profitable Cleveland law practice to assist Attorney-General Homer Cummings with criminal prosecutions at the peak of the Kidnap Era (1933) and who stayed on to become chief White House overseer of the Senate, especially in Federal judgeship appointments. Should the New Deal game...
Stories that Joe Keenan resigned because Boss Roosevelt would not make him, too, a Federal judge, were false as a gangster's oath. Fact was, Joe Keenan was offered a $12,500 judgeship and he declined it simply because that is not enough on which to send four children through college. Back in private practice, Lawyer Keenan can easily make several times $12,500 a year. His standing with the Janizariat is ace high. Yet because his unswerving efforts in the Supreme Court fight and the Purge were known to be based more on loyalty than conviction, he stands...
...turn last week of Joseph B. Keenan, first Assistant to the Attorney General and a political specialist in the Janizariat, to repeat what has become the official story about a Third Term: that Franklin Roosevelt would run again "if needed." The Keenan version: "Americans can be of good cheer, for I am sure if the occasion arises where any star of liberal leadership becomes dimmed, we can rely upon that one great American to continue the battle. . . . He will not see the humane policies which he has instituted perish...
Head Janizaries. The early Brain Trust - Professors Moley, Tugwell, Warren, Berle, et al. - were economists. Among the Janizaries named above, not one is an economist. They are executives (Hopkins, Ickes), high-grade political go-betweens (Keenan, Niles, Son James) and smart lawyers (Jackson, Corcoran & Cohen). Among the President's original close advisers last winter were left only two economists, Adolf A. Berle Jr. (who resigned last fortnight†) and Leon Henderson, now attached to the Monopoly Investigation, member of the commission whose report last week on consumer incomes (see p. 59) is red-hot campaign ammunition. Only other original...