HANNAN, EKERN, JACKSON HAVE LEADING ROLES
Hamian,Ekerii, Jackson Have Leading Roles Two Veterans and Young New Dealer Head Memorial Rites TWO veterans in ftie Progressive movement and a comparatively young New Dealer will share the...
...A trouble-shooter for Pres...
...Atty...
...Ekern has been a Progressive campaigner for more than three decades and has held many high public offices...
...Roosevelt on many occasions, and a man in whom the president has much trust he has been anathema to those to whom the New Deal is anathema, but no one has yet failed to recognize and admit, however grudgingly, his ability...
...The Jwo Wisconsin veterans are Col...
...They arc terrified at the suggestion of inheritance taxes, the effect of which at worst would be to give their own sons a chance to be rugged individualist^.' "Jackson refuses to worry about his political future or about the headlines...
...Jackson is a great believer In private enterprise, but he believes that the business men who shout for it, asserting that the government is ruining such action, are doing the ruining themselves...
...Robert H. Jackson, the comparrtively young New Dealer, who will deliver the memorial address at the exercises, has had a distinguished career in the service of the Roosevelt administration...
...Hannan was for many years chief aide to "Fighting Bob" La Follette...
...It does not offer an opportunity for enough of the ablest men to rise to the top...
...The real curse of our system of private enterprise today,' he says, "is that it has destroyed enterprise...
...I never plan over a long range...
...John J. Hannan, chairman of the committee on arrangements, and Herman L. Ekern, who will preside over the services...
...He went to Washington in 1934 as general counsel for the bureau of internal revenue and in the six succeeding years moved through the position of assistant attorney general in charge of the tax division, assistant attorney general In charge of the antitrust division, solicitor general of the United States, and now attorney general...
...In a recent article on Jackson's career, an outstanding Washington newspaper had this to say: "Mr...
...He won't even discuss the matter...
...Robert Jackson, a lawyer without a degree but with a fast mind and a convincing, humorous tongue, has long been considered the model New Dealer...
...Those who talk rugged individualism.' he said, 'seem always t» live softly themselves...
...he says...
...Hamian,Ekerii, Jackson Have Leading Roles Two Veterans and Young New Dealer Head Memorial Rites TWO veterans in ftie Progressive movement and a comparatively young New Dealer will share the spotlight at the loth annual memorial services for the late Robert Marion La Follette Sr...
Vol. 10 • June 1940 • No. 25
