Joseph B. Keenan (1896-1984) was a United Statespolitical figure. He served in the administrations of US Presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman, and was the chief prosecutor in the International Military Tribunal for the Far East. A politician is an individual involved in politics, sometimes this may include political scientists. ... Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882–April 12, 1945), often referred to as FDR, was the 32nd (1933–1945) President of the United States. ... For the victim of Mt. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... Categories: Possible copyright violations ...
KEENAN: Reorganizing, and trying to relocate the labor leaders that were disposed of in 1933, finding them, bringing them back to their towns in the American zone, and using them as the means of reorganizing the trade unions in the American zone.
KEENAN: I was involved in a case in Detroit, where John Lewis took after me for some of the actions I had taken in a bad strike up there.
KEENAN: He told me that he had committed himself to [Alben] Barkley and as long as Barkley was in the race, he was for Barkley, but his second choice would be Truman.
Joseph H. Keenan, head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is a noted authority on thermodynamics, whose interests have extended to jet and rocket propulsion and to gas turbines.
Born in Wilkes-Barre, PA in 1900, Professor Keenan graduated from MIT in 1922 with the degree of Bachelor of Science in naval architecture and marine engineering.
As Executive Secretary of the USA Commission on the Properties of Steam, which reports to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Professor Keenan attended a meeting in Moscow during the summer of 1958, for the purpose of coordinating research on the properties of steam which is now on progress in many countries.