Word: hannegan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Democratic National Chairman was feeling rotten. Bob Hannegan recently had a lot of teeth pulled. Now he was convalescing in the Arizona Biltmore, in Phoenix, with tender gums and a sore throat. The telephone rang, and added to his sufferings a headache from Washington...
From Henry Wallace, whom Stage Manager Bob Hannegan co-starred with the President: "We know that [Republican] normalcy will lead to boom, bust and chaos. [The Democratic Party] stands for the people first, property second...
...callers, many of them merely PRs (payers of respects). He sandwiched pressing domestic matters between his frequent conferences, disposed of many routine chores. Twice he called in his Congressional Big Four. He had his Cabinet in for lunch, later for a meeting. He gave Democratic National Chairman Robert E. Hannegan an unscheduled hour in which, presumably, the surgery to end the pain of the Pauley appointment was approved...
Democratic National Chairman Robert E. Hannegan got Administration heads in Congress together last week. They decided that it was high time to do something about the coalition of Republicans and Southern Democrats that was hamstringing Harry Truman's legislative program. The something they decided on: a series of five "unity" dinners for Democratic Congressmen at Washington's plush Mayflower Hotel. The idea: to woo back into line Southerners and others who have strayed over to the opposition. Groups of 40 to 50 Congressmen were invited to each of the dinners, at which the salad will be mixed with...
...Chicago Sun's Tom Reynolds reported that Harry Truman had told Democratic leaders that he did not want to run in 1948. The President laughed off the story. Democratic National Chairman Robert E. Hannegan denied it categorically...