Word: hannegan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both the New York Times's well-informed Arthur Krock and the New York Sun's frankly GOPartisan George Van Slyke insisted last week that the phrase had a solid basis in fact. According to the story, Democratic National Chairman Bob Hannegan had gone for instructions to the President's private car as it sat on a Chicago siding just before the July convention officially began. The President, closely following the vice-presidential race, had decided to dump both Jimmy Byrnes and Henry Wallace. Worried over the dissension, he allegedly said: "Go on down there and nominate...
...absence of Wendell Willkie from the Republican Convention and shocked at the treatment accorded Henry Wallace by the Democrats [TIME, July 31]. Senator Truman may become Presidential material but the electorate, remembering the disaster that followed the election of another senator similarly selected, may refuse to vote for a Hannegan-Flynn-Kelly man for the peace period. MABEL WITHYCOMBE Portland...
...also enlisted the help of two potent Democrats, National Chairman Robert E. Hannegan and Vice Presidential Nominee Harry Truman, both of whom are from Missouri, and both now very close to Franklin Roosevelt. Neither had to be shown that Bennett Clark was in deep trouble. Their aid was of no avail. In last week's primary Bennett Clark was snowed under. Reasons: 1) his own soggy inertia-he neglected his mail, several times stood up audiences that had come to hear him; 2) the opposition of C.I.O.'s Political Action Committee; 3) the aggressive campaign waged at every...
...light primary Democrats polled a higher vote: 324,000 to 299,000. Both parties were torn by internal dissension; both now have a hot campaigner at the top of the ticket. Bob Hannegan and Harry Truman are sure to pour in all the money and speakers necessary for a thumping campaign; the Republicans likewise. (One reason for Tom Dewey's Governors' meeting in St. Louis was to pep up the Missouri G.O.P.) If Missouri is any barometer, and it has been a true one in the past 40 years, the 1944 Presidential election will be the closest since...
...bosses were very busy. Their work was done in the air-conditioned "Private Room H," reached by a dark corridor underneath the speaker's stand. In & out, all afternoon, went Hannegan, Kelly, Flynn, Walker, Hague & Co. Harry Truman stayed there for three hours, handshaking the delegates as the bosses brought them in. Inside, someone was always on the telephone, and whispered snatches of conversation floated to the door: "I think we got California in shape . . ." "Kelly said . . ." "At the New York caucus, they . . ." "Don't worry too much about Alabama. . . ." One of the most impressive lines, used with...