Word: hannegan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fortnight the White House had refused to verify any definite Roosevelt speaking engagements beyond the Oct. 5 talk to party workers (see below). But the speech to the Teamsters fired Term IV Chairman Bob Hannegan with almost uncontrollable enthusiasm for the President's oratorical wizardry. Moving in Manhattan's café society, zealous Bob Hannegan began to have dazzling ideas about an old-time Roosevelt campaign tour. He made proposals to Democratic bigwigs; he jiggled dates with Madison Square Garden officials. The rumors grew: there might be two speeches in New York City, one in upper New York...
...week began it appeared that, while Bob Hannegan had been overenthusiastic about new engagements, the President will make campaign speeches-not from public platforms, but from dining tables equipped with microphones...
Frank Sinatra, teatiming at the White House at the invitation of Democratic Chairman Robert Hannegan (who also brought along Manhattan Restaurateur Toots Shor, an ex-bouncer, and Funnyman "Rags" Ragland, an ex-burlesque comic), was kidded by the President about "the art of how to make girls faint," and came away determined to buy radio time of his own to campaign for Term IV. Observed The Voice: "My fans are not all teenagers. . . . Besides, even the 15-year-olds can influence people...
...Fauset, onetime friend of Eleanor Roosevelt, onetime member of the Pennsylvania Legislature (its first and only Negro woman), quit the Democratic National Committee's offices in Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel, walked two blocks up Madison Avenue to join the G.O.P. at the Roosevelt Hotel. Said she: "Bob Hannegan is a dictator-a man who is not willing to deal democratically with Negroes...
...phrase especially hurt Chairman Bob Hannegan, who has no affection for Sidney Hillman. Trying to clear things up, Hannegan called in the press to say the President had never instructed him to "clear everything with Sidney...