Word: hannegan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...favor of clamping on the price lid, put an ear to the ground. Even Chicago was out of meat, and some 40,000 unemployed packinghouse workers wanted to get back to work. Ed rushed to Washington, redder than a cop's undershirt, to join National Chairman Bob Hannegan and members of the Democratic Party's executive committee at a chicken lunch. What, they asked, could be done...
...Postmaster General-Robert Hannegan for Frank Walker (no worse...
...blast, in pain and befuddlement. The Party's strategists picked themselves off the floor and felt themselves gingerly. It was too early to tell where the fractures might show up in the congressional elections in November. But the air was heavy with gloom. National Chairman Bob Hannegan and his able young assistant Gael Sullivan got on the telephone as soon as the dust had cleared. They called many a local Party bigwig. Some were ready to hang out the crepe right away, but many others thought they had suffered nothing worse than sprains and minor dislocations...
...Then Hannegan and Sullivan were off to Chicago to assess the damage in the Midwest and to try to get the National Committee machine back on its bearings. Illinois was a fair sample of the dilemma many Democratic leaders faced. A Republican trend was running; the G.O.P. was given a good chance of cutting four of the Democrats' eleven seats in Congress out from under them. The Democratic leaders had counted heavily on a tour by Henry Wallace this month to bolster party strength in industrial districts. Now local Democrats could not drop Wallace for fear of alienating labor...
National Chairman Bob Hannegan, in & out of the White House all week long, turned up once with a whole swarm of 21 freshman Democratic candidates. Former Ambassador to Russia Joe Davies dropped by, announced that he was bullish on Democratic prospects...