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John O`Keefe was a special assistant secretary of the Navy, serving with Secretary of the Navy|Frank in Washington in the |Franklinadministration from 1938 until 1941. O`Keefe began his business career as a stenographer and a court reporter for the Chicago Police Department in 1920. He later was assistant to the vice chairman of Commonwealth Edison Co before he went to work for Knox. After the war, O’Keefe became publisher of the before joining the Chicago Newspaper Publishers Association as executive director in 1946. As head of Chicago`s newspaper labor negotiators, O`Keefe was instrumental in settling one of Chicago`s lengthier labor disputes, a newspaper strike that lasted from November 1947 to September 1949. O`Keefe retired in 1972 as the dean Chicago newspaper labor negotiations for a quarter century. In retirement, O’Keefe was very active Chicago charitable circles before his death in 1992 at 87 years old.

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