Show GOES TO COURT IV 1 Z k X 7 k M v in A alv A w y ME A it 14 W UW joe kennedy Ke miedy redheaded RedHead red cd irishman will be new type ambassador to glands En austere court of st james jaines by JOSEPH W labine A redheaded red headed american business man the blood of old erin coursing through his veins is creating a sensation at great britaina Brit ains austere court of st james his name is joe kennedy the son of a onetime one time boston politician and saloon keeper new united states ambassador to england joe kennedy is placing his sturdy business shoes in the footsteps where formerly walked philosophers poets historians and members of the social elect lie he is not americas first business man ambassador but he is the first business man to get the job without first showing his listing in socie tys chos who joe kennedy who made a million dollars before he was 35 who organized the successful securities exchange com and served as chairman of the maritime commission may maybe be ushering in a new type of diplomacy others claim thi this s r right ight hand hand man of the roosevelt administration is being exiled by his appointment to st james still Stil others lothers say the ambassadorship is a springboard to the presidency more likely is the answer that president roosevelt recognizes the need for a british ambassador of exceptional business ability a mancho man who can maneuver the proposed trade treaty to a successful conclusion joe kennedy kenned more moie than any other new dealer is the man who can doit do it red bed Tape Bothers mm him this d dynamic y american Is apt to shock st james As SEC chairman m an and head of the maritime corn mission he showed his distaste for official red tape and soft couched procedure in diplomacy as nowhere else else he ne will find just such conditions the kennedy career reads like an unbroken success story in which love and family life have played an important part at forty nine he is the father of nine good looking children his wi fethe former rose fitzgerald of boston abston is so attractive and slim at forty seven that john boettiger roosevelt sonin son in law blurted out when he first met her at I 1 last ast I 1 believe in the stork kennedy started as a boston newsboy in a career that stretches from new england to hollywood and back again at harvard harv rd where he hb finished d in 1912 he was a star baseball player and made driving a sightseeing sight seeing bus during summer vacations by the time he graduated he decided on a banking career became a state stafe examiner for 18 months and when only twenty five was actually a bank president tl lie ile fought with roosevelt Koo sevelt kennedys Kenn edys first meeting with president roosevelt came during the warthen war when the irish bostonian was assistant general manager of the fore river shipyards and the president was assistant secretary of the navy it Is recalled that the angry navy official dispatched troops to take over a ship kennedy refused toi to release next came three years as manager mani I 1 of the stock department at hayden stone company a boston banking house it was vas there that kennedy got the bright idea of buy ing american option rights on foreign motion pictures that started his movie career kennedy was new nev blood in hollywood one of the first young business men to approach the movie industry from the banking end from 1923 1926 to 1830 1930 he was in the center of mammoth mergers and shifts in the big companies by 1929 just before the crash he decided to get betout out of the movie business neis but brief hollywood career he had been president of the film booking offic offices es ot of america chairman of the board for keith albee orpheum special adviser for first national pictures and special i adviser for paramount pictures when depression was at its depth joe kennedy happ ilyIn his spacious tous homes homei at hyannis port palm beach or on bronxville Bronx ville but the social consciousness which had evidently eluded him during the dizzy apparently awakened at this time he was one of the first to board president Roosevel ts bandwagon while the present chief executive was still governor of new york and jim parley farley was still a small time politician reformed wall street kennedy money backed the 1032 campaign and the dynamic kennedy personality gladdened many a vote getting tour when it was all over he spent two and a half months reorganizing radio corpor atlon of america and hobnobbing hobnob bing with his wall street friends trying to convince them that the world was changed they listen few people have forgotten the turbulent days when the securities exchange commission was established with kennedy at its head healt almost to a man wall street brokers protested it would wreck their profession but the measure went through and today find thata that a majority of SECs old opponents are its staunchest staunches supporters after SEC was established he left the government and returned to making money again only to be re called when president roosevelt needed leadership for the maritime commission hg he handled bandied american shipping interests as lie had handled film companies in need of overhauling ile he settled of mail mall contract claims of 23 shipping companies against the government for and laid down theoule th the erule rule that future government subsidies to shipping should be made only where there was a chance of accomplishing something by it then last november he released a sensational report listing the needs of american shipping a report that will probably go down in history as another example of kennedy foresight and common sense when every other nation was building huge liners joe kennedy predicted the day when fast aircraft aou would id make liners impractical therefore he recommended emphasis on transatlantic trans atlantic airplanes together with construction of small and sensible ocean vessels lies iles pep personified to staid Britis hers joe kennedy may be the perfect example of american pep big and tall he likes to work in his shirt sleeves make instantaneous decisions and ride airplanes instead of trains he is a go getter equally at home with any kind of an audience it is significant sign that thai joe kennedy is one ok othe the tw faw new st still I 1 H re retain maln the respect of business at large president roosevelt is sacrificing an important window dresser on the home front when he 4 vw ia 4 j X ak 41 r t 14 41 r R I 1 N 3 I 1 UP 1 3 built originally for pierpont pont morgan the he new united states embassy tit at london should be large canough for the kennedy family mother rather father and nine smart youngsters sends this irishman to st james that mat is the be best st indication of the importance the president attached to the british post an equally interesting sidelight will be the kennedy fam ilys invasion of london never before has hag the united state Stater sent an irishman to london storm center of english irl irish s h dessens dissension I 1 0 n B boston 0 t 0 n blue bloods social registe rites from new york philadelphia and washington will be presented next june to queen elizabeth at buck ingham palace by rose kennedy a woman who was never invited to join the exclusive junior i league american americal AmerI cai debutantes cannot appear before the queen of england unless rose kennedy sanctions it if joe kennedy engineers the anglo american trade agreement he WUI will return to the united states more thoroughly in the spotlight than ever though some may consider him an exile in london he can recall that five former ambassadors bass adors to st james jamea later became president who knows but that this typical american business man may follow their sample sampie hard headed business men also make good denist 0 western |