... war ended, Joseph Sr. began investing on his own, first buying out a chain of New England movie theaters in the early 1920s. He spent time in Hollywood, buying and selling movie companies, before returning in 1930 to New York, where his acumen as a stock market speculator became legendary ... was changing when JFK reached Washington. World War II was over, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt was dead. President Harry Truman was doing his best to expand the liberal social programs of his predecessor, but he faced staunch opposition from a coalition of Southern Democrats and Republicans, who an...

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