Word: hannegan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Along with the new Postmaster General, Bob Hannegan, the new members will take office with the start of the new fiscal year, July 1-except Clint Anderson, who will assume his new job as soon as Claude Wickard can be confirmed as Rural Electrification Administrator...
Robert E. Hannegan, who made the grade from Missouri machine politician to Democratic National Chairman to U.S. Postmaster General, assured 200 Democratic Congressmen of his generous nature: "I believe that Republicans are entitled to all the good things in life-except jobs in public office...
...time-honored precedent of making a top party politician the Postmaster General of the U.S. got its bow from President Truman. To replace Postmaster General Frank C. Walker, the President appointed jut-chinned, 42-year-old Bob Hannegan, who had risen to the top of the Democratic National Committee in twelve years from a start as a Committeeman in St. Louis' 21st Ward...
...both handed to old friends: 1) California Democrat Ed Pauley as the U.S. member of the Allied Reparations Commission; and 2) Omaha insurance man Ed McKim as chief administrative assistant (see THE ADMINISTRATION). President Truman's chief adviser on all matters, big & small, continued to be National Chairman Hannegan, the man who put him over for Vice President...
Last week, the 16 club owners finally met in Cleveland-to pick a commissioner if possible. The three top candidates were Jim Farley, who would rather own a ball club than be President; Ford Frick, capable president of the National League; Bob Hannegan, Democratic National