Word: dickmann
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Louis, Postmaster Bernard F. Dickmann read the Star-Times account of it, and got off a knuckle-rapping letter to the Star-Times. Its gist: if he had seen the paper that day, he would have barred it from the mail. Furthermore, if he had read TIME, LIFE, Newsweek and the other publications that carried the story, he would have barred them...
Star-Times Publisher Elzey Roberts countered with a defiant open letter to officious, slowfooted Dickmann. It was absurd, Roberts said, to make it "legal to listen to such news [by radio] and illegal to read it" in a paper. In Washington, Dickmann's fellow St. Louisan and political sponsor, Postmaster General Robert Hannegan, agreed with Publisher Roberts, and ruled that the law didn't literally mean what it said. Henceforth "incidental reporting of a lottery" will not bar a paper from the mails...
...baseball at Jesuit St. Louis University (1921-25), followed this with three years of pro football and minor-league baseball. In 1934, after years of paddling around the precincts, he rose to be chairman of St. Louis' Democratic Committee and co-boss, with barrel-chested Mayor Bernard F. Dickmann, of St. Louis' tough, brassy Democratic machine...
Team Man. The end of the smooth-running Dickmann-Hannegan machine came in 1941, after Missouri Democrats had blundered into the colossal error of attempting to "steal" the governorship from Republican Forrest C. Donnell (TIME, March 23, 1942). Bob Hannegan's organizing talents did not lie idle long. Year later, Missouri Senators Clark and Truman boomed him for Collector of Internal Revenue in St. Louis...
...Dickmann sternly disapproves his country's present foreign policy. He wishes Argentina would take her place alongside the United Nations. But he insisted that Argentines are nearly 100% pro-Ally. If they do not choose to fight it is for three reasons: "A wrong conception of international politics, a pacific viewpoint engendered by 82 years of peace, a spreading of propaganda by Argentine isolationists that the U.S. is taking advantage of World War II to make a colony of South America." Said...