Word: hannegan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago, Democratic Chairman Bob Hannegan came aboard for a quick political conference, and after the Presidential party traveled on Hannegan kept in touch by telephone. The train rolled into a siding in a big West Coast naval base the day the convention began...
...wrote Franklin Roosevelt in a letter to Democratic Chairman Robert Hannegan last week...
Much as he wanted to retire, the President had written, "If the Convention should . . . nominate me for the Presidency, I shall accept. If the people elect me, I will serve. . . ." And, Mr. Roosevelt told Mr. Hannegan, he would not "run" in the ordinary political sense, "but if the people command me to continue in this office and in this war, I have as little right to withdraw as the soldier has to leave his post in the line...
...Chronicle denouncing the recent anti-New Deal revolt in Texas. The wiseacres reasoned: Jesse had waited until .the Southerners had won their bargain, i.e., the dropping of Henry Wallace, before blasting the rebels, who are far closer to his heart than the New Dealers. In Columbus, National Chairman Robert Hannegan turned up with his own list of seven Vice Presidential possibilities. He then hurried to Washington and an hour-long conference with Franklin Roosevelt (of which not a word leaked...
...Faces. But one trouble with Bob Hannegan's list, and all the others put out by newsmen and dopesters, was that they all had the same old faces. Newest face was that of Oklahoma's rambunctious, New Dealing Governor Robert S. Kerr, who last week was busy trying out his convention keynote speech on his six-year-old son. (According to one dispatch, the son was bored...