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...politician the Postmaster General of the U.S. got its bow from President Truman. To replace Postmaster General Frank C. Walker, the President appointed jut-chinned, 42-year-old Bob Hannegan, who had risen to the top of the Democratic National Committee in twelve years from a start as a Committeeman in St. Louis' 21st Ward...
...Committeeman Thomas charged flatly that the report did not measure the full rise in living cost, which he figures has gone up 44.4%. Committeeman Meany, who believes that everyone is entitled to exactly the same living standard now as before the war, said the report did not consider "hidden rises" in living costs, i.e., wear & tear on automobiles...
Evergreen State. In war-boomed Washington the G.O.P.'s square-jawed Governor Arthur B. Langlie went out. In went the Democratic's shrewd, poker-playing U.S. Senator (and Truman committeeman) Mon C. Wallgren...
...sniffed suspiciously at the Great Blueprint, as if it were a new League of Nations in a slick disguise. Senator Bob's tight grip on his own Progressive Party may be slipping* but in Washington he is still a man to be reckoned with. As a Foreign Relations Committeeman whose Senate seat is good until January 1947, his voice may carry far in the Great Debate. Last week The Progressive, official weekly organ of La Follette's party, complained of "the almost frenzied haste with which the Administration is driving for establishment of the international agency which will...
Scene V: John Touhy's. The caucuses ground on. Ed Kelly herded Illinois' 58 delegates out to Committeeman John Touhy's famed 27th Ward Club (across from the Stadium), where food & drink was free. Ed Kelly tried to get his 58 Illinois delegates to pledge for Truman. The Wallace men balked. Ed Kelly smoothly switched to his own Senator, Scott Lucas, of Illinois. By now the strategy of both camps was clear. The bosses would nominate all possible favorite sons, confuse and wear down the delegates, then try to push through Truman, or a compromise. The Wallace...