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...wealthy Charleston oilman (Plymouth Oil Co.), Hallanan has been the tough, domineering boss of West Virginia Republicanism for a quarter of a century, has served 24 years on the national committee. A close friend of Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy, he lets Joe fly around in his company...
...Hallanan has not always been a trusted Taft lieutenant. Just after Taft was defeated by Dewey in the 1948 convention, one of Taft's most important and consistent supporters gave this description of the West Virginian: "Hallanan was a double-crosser. He double-crossed Frank Knox in 1936. He double-crossed us in 1940. We didn't trust him, but he had a hell of a row with Dewey in 1940, and we thought that would hold him. This time he went through to the last day, and then, when the going got tough, he went over...
...Shyster" & "Spoiled Child." The delegate-hungry Taftmen, obeying the Biblical injunction to forgive their enemies seventy times seven times, have clasped Hallanan to their bosoms once more, and this time they expect him to stay clasped. As temporary chairman, Hallanan will take the gavel a few moments after National Chairman Guy Gabrielson raps the convention to order on July 7, and will preside until after the keynote. He will be in charge when the convention adopts rules and seats contested delegates, when his rulings might be disastrous to the Eisenhower forces. Theoretically, a ruling of the chairman can be reversed...
Although they were cautious in comments about Hero MacArthur, the Eisenhower high command let fly at Politician Hallanan. Pennsylvania's Senator Jim Duff roared: "As an umpire we'll have a man who is already a player in the game." Campaign Manager Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. speculated that he might take a megaphone to Chicago, in case Hallanan refused to let Ikemen use the microphones. Taftmen on the arrangements committee, said Lodge, had used "shyster tactics...
...Hallanan shouted right back, called Lodge "a completely spoiled political child." "You are obviously having a political nightmare," he said. "Even your rights as a delegate to the convention will be fully preserved and protected...