Word: hannegan
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Died. Robert Emmet Hannegan, 46, whose rise from St. Louis ward boss to a key spot in the Democratic Party helped put Harry Truman in the White House; of a heart ailment; in St. Louis. As a St. Louis party whip, Hannegan backed Senator Truman's renomination in the 1940 Missouri primary; as chairman of the Democratic National Committee (1944-47). he led the fourth-term fight, persuaded F.D.R. to drop Henry Wallace as running mate and pressured the convention into picking Truman. Rewarded with the postmaster-generalship (1945), Hannegan i resigned his political jobs a year later...
Regularity Counts. County Judge Harry Truman took a fancy to the youngster. When Senator Truman headed up the War Investigating Committee, he sent for Boyle to be his assistant counsel. In 1944 Boyle was called in again to help ailing Bob Hannegan run the Roosevelt-Truman campaign. On the side-the patronage boss gets no pay-he makes an unspectacular but comfortable living practicing law in Washington...
...Louis, ex-Postmaster General Bob Hannegan stepped down last week after little more than a year as president of the Cardinals, and sold out to his partner for a rumored $1,000,000. The new president and majority stockholder (90%): Fred M. Saigh Jr., 43, St. Louis lawyer and big-time real-estate operator. Said Saigh: "I have decided there is no mystery about baseball. It's just like any other business; you have to have experts in all departments...
...bosses were New Jersey's Frank Hague, Chicago's Ed Kelly, and National Chairman Bob Hannegan. They took scores of delegates into Room H and introduced them to Harry Truman. From time to time snatches of conversation drifted out: "I think we got California in shape," "Don't worry too much about Alabama," etc. TIME'S story ran for eight columns in the issue of July 31, 1944, and it took the work of a dozen good political reporters to fit all of its complicated parts together...
...thought that Bob Hannegan & Co.* had paid anything like five times too much. But it was no secret that the Cardinal farm system was running...