Word: hannegan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Secretary of the Navy, New Hampshire's John L. Sullivan, well-traveled Under Secretary of the Navy, onetime Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, a faithful Democrat and good friend of National Chairman Bob Hannegan...
Ailing Bob Hannegan was in California, chatting with National Committeeman Ed Pauley and coaxing San Francisco into bidding for the Democratic convention next summer. When reporters tracked him down, he finally confirmed the recurrent rumor that he might resign as Democratic National Chairman...
...Indiana; Oklahoma's Governor Bob Kerr; mousy Les Biffle, the Senate Democrats' masterminding policy committee director; New Dealing Judge Sherman ("Shay") Minton, who has been mentioned for every vacancy from the Supreme Court to the War Department. One old name missing from the list this time was Hannegan's young, exuberant executive assistant, Gael Sullivan, who left his chances in a Rhode Island district court last month when he pleaded guilty to a charge of dangerous driving (scaled down from drunken driving...
...name on the succession list was that of New Mexico's Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson. Like Hannegan, Clint Anderson was not feeling up to snuff. Suffering from diabetes, he had doubled his insulin treatments under pressure of his Cabinet job. His real ambition is to go to the Senate if New Mexico's Carl Hatch decides not to run again next year. But this week Clint Anderson was off for Hawaii, where he will spend the next few weeks resting up and thinking it over with Bob Hannegan at Ed Pauley's fancy Cocoanut Island hideaway...
Party Chairman Bob Hannegan was back in Washington after five months of treatment for high blood pressure. They discussed politics. They measured the possible effects of Tom Dewey's foray into the West. During most of the rest of the week, Harry Truman's calling list was loaded with some 100 small but handy worker-Democrats. It was time to start warming...