Word: hannegan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Capitol Hill increased. The House, by overwhelming votes, bypassed his labor fact-finding bill and overrode his opposition to a bill returning the U.S. Employment Service to the states. Finally, Harry Truman decided to do something about the White House-Congress impasse. Listening to advice from Postmaster General Robert Hannegan, he delegated Hannegan to form a team of expediters to try and get one measure at a time through Congress...
...last year's Democratic convention, he was picked by National Chairman Robert Hannegan to preside, did his bit for the Hannegan-Hague-Kelly steamroller. After the first ballot for Vice President-on which Henry Wallace had a lead-he promptly called for ballot No. 2, giving Wallace supporters no chance to regroup. One result: Jackson was an early caller at the White House when President Harry Truman moved...
...administrators to the job of pushing and pulling balky Congressmen toward the legislation he wants. To each of his executive family the President had assigned the responsibility for specific parts of his program. To each (except Interior Secretary Harold Ickes, Attorney General Tom Clark and Postmaster General Robert Hannegan) the President had sent a letter outlining the legislation for which he would be held accountable in researching and drafting bills, presenting testimony to committees, promoting the legislation through Senate and House...
...talked about upcoming legislation with Utah's Senator Elbert D. Thomas and Kentucky's Representative Andrew May. He talked (upcoming politics, presumably) with Postmaster General Bob Hannegan...
Meanwhile, on a flood of laudatory oratory, in rode Attorney General Thomas Campbell Clark, Postmaster General Robert Emmett Hannegan, Labor Secretary Lewis Baxter Schwellenbach, Agriculture Secretary Clinton Presba Anderson. This week's plans called for James Francis Byrnes to be sworn in as Secretary of State (see above). Washington gossips buzzed of further changes and more shake-ups to come...