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...question as Chicago's big week began: Could Adlai ride out the Truman crisis and protect the huge lead he had collected? The answers lay in the abacus mind and the horny fists of his campaign manager, Pennsylvania's Jim Finnegan...
...usually seated in left field at Fenway Park. The writers call his action "displays of unrestrained rage," and "those of the only spitball outfielder the game has produced." Harold Kaese of the Boston Daily Globe has gone so far as to demand that "Ted Williams should quit baseball." "Huck Finnegan" of the Boston Evening American states that "Williams had blown himself up to such proportions that he was bigger than the game itself, or at least he thought...
...sticking points were 1) length of contract-the industry wanted five years, McDonald two-and 2) weekend premium pay. For about a week, as the two sides bargained in Pittsburgh on the issues, the Administration kept to its hands-off policy, leaving it to Federal Mediator Joe Finnegan to help keep the talks going. But when the going got tough, Labor Secretary Mitchell called a secret meeting in Manhattan between McDonald and the presidents of U.S. Steel, Bethlehem and Republic Steel. The Pittsburgh talks were resumed. Then, on July 21, the bargaining broke up. McDonald, his bags packed, prepared...
...late preconvention season of 1956, two Catholics-Massachusetts Senator John Kennedy and New York Mayor Robert Wagner-rank high among Democratic vice-presidential possibilities. One reason: a confidential survey now in the hands of selected Democratic leaders, e.-g., Harriman Adviser Carmine De Sapio and Stevenson Campaign Manager James Finnegan (both Catholics). The survey's fundamental thesis: Democratic presidential chances in November may well depend upon getting a Catholic on the national ticket...
...JERSEY. Delegates heard appeals by Candidates Averell Harriman and Estes Kefauver and by Adlai Stevenson's campaign manager, Jim Finnegan, but elected to go to the convention uncommitted. Though the group is heavily pro-Stevenson, leaders will plump for the delegation's chairman, Governor Robert B. Meyner, as a first-ballot favorite...