Word: hannegan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Democratic committee also installed a new chairman, Senator J. Howard McGrath, the New-Dealish Rhode Islander who had been Harry Truman's personal choice to run his campaign (TIME, Oct. 6). McGrath had no sooner taken over the chair from ailing Bob Hannegan than he had a chance to demonstrate his ability to duck. The committeemen had prepared a resolution condemning almost in toto the work of the 80th Congress. McGrath spiked the resolution before it came to a vote. He remembered that many a Democrat had voted for Republican-sponsored measures, among them the Taft-Hartley labor...
Ailing Bob Hannegan was finally out as chairman of the Democratic National Committee. To run his 1948 campaign Politician Harry Truman chose Rhode Island's hard-driving freshman Senator J. Howard McGrath...
...bitter end Bob Hannegan and some of the old big-city bosses-Chicago's Ed Kelly and The Bronx's Ed Flynn-had plugged hard to get the job for Gael Sullivan, the committee's executive director and a favorite of the C.I.O. Sullivan, they insisted, was the man to rally labor and the party's liberals and left-wingers. But Harry Truman insisted on making his own choice. The appointment of McGrath continued the tradition, begun with Jim Farley, of naming an Irish Catholic as chairman of the Democratic Committee...
...Roberts countered with a defiant open letter to officious, slowfooted Dickmann. It was absurd, Roberts said, to make it "legal to listen to such news [by radio] and illegal to read it" in a paper. In Washington, Dickmann's fellow St. Louisan and political sponsor, Postmaster General Robert Hannegan, agreed with Publisher Roberts, and ruled that the law didn't literally mean what it said. Henceforth "incidental reporting of a lottery" will not bar a paper from the mails...
Cloudy Session. Before he left Washington, the President had had a cool-to-cloudy session with hypertensive Democratic Party Chairman Bob Hannegan, accepted Hannegan's decision to quit the chairmanship with few regrets. With quiet irritation, the President dropped his speech coach, J. Leonard Reinsch, from the Rio passenger list. For weeks, columnists had spread a false rumor that Reinsch would be appointed FCC chairman to succeed Chairman Charles R. Denny. The President suspected Reinsch of what he considers a cardinal sin: starting the rumor himself. Washington heard that Harry Truman had acidly been asking his close associates...