...Deal, in which Kennedy revealed that "I am not ashamed to record that in those days (of the Depression) I felt and said I would be willing to part with half...be sure of keeping, under law and order, the other half."15 The 1936 campaign was also the occasion for strains in old political friendships and the intrusion...

...in so doing. Satisfied with his profits from short sales, he still remained very apprehensive. Later he wrote, "I am not ashamed to record that in those...to hold nothing for the protection of my family." For all Joe Kennedy's dread, however, he and his family not only did not suffer from the crash, they...

...risk that neither politicians nor business wants to run. During the 1930s, Joseph P. Kennedy declared, "I felt and said I would be willing to part with half...of keeping, under law and order, the other half."" In order to forestall the possibility of again facing such a situation, many of the rich and powerful...

...Curb. Throughout the period many Americans felt revolution was a real possibility in the United States. "I am not ashamed to record that in those days I felt...of keeping, under law and order, the other half," wrote speculator Joseph P. Kennedy. "Then it seemed that I should be able to hold nothing for the protection...

...the possibility of revolution. "I am not ashamed to record," wrote Joseph Kennedy three years later, "that in those days I felt and said I would be willing...be sure of keeping, under law and order, the other half."87 Wall Streeters had contradictory opinions regarding Roosevelt on that day. They feared some...

...party. A year later the Great Depression began. "I am not ashamed to record," Kennedy recalled in 1936, "that in those days I felt and said I would be willing...should be able to hold nothing for the protection of my family."13 An outsider in Wall Street as well as in the Back Bay, he had no deep allegiance to the...

...apprehensive that he might end up as penniless as the forlorn men peddling apples on the street corners. "I am not ashamed to record that in those days I felt...of keeping, under law and order, the other half," Joe reflected years later. "Then it seemed that I should be able to hold nothing ror the protection...

...specializing in the film industry. Then came the crash. "I am not ashamed to record," Kennedy wrote in 1936, "that in those days I felt and said I would be willing...of keeping, under law and order, the other half." But he continued to prosper. By 1932 this tough, impatient, healthy-looking man in heavy horn-rimmed...

...potential made elites willing to accept significant reforms. Joseph Kennedy, for example, declared, "I felt and said I would be willing to part with half...be sure of keeping, under law and order, the other half."6 In fact, at least a fraction of leading businessmen supported most New Deal reforms, and an...

...revolution. Joseph P. Kennedy, himself one of the leading market operators, wrote three years later that "I am not ashamed to record that in those days I felt...be sure of keeping, under law and order, the other half."24 The federal government moved overtly to intervene in the economy and the financial markets...