Word: hannegan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chairman Paul Butler says the Democratic party "need make no apologies for a method of selection which produced the nomination of Harry S. Truman" [in 1944, when Wallace was dropped], he is talking like a narrow-minded politician. Roosevelt had far, far less part in picking Truman than did Hannegan and Flynn, two professional politicians working closely with Edwin W. Pauley, an oil man, over a period of several months...
...country, they hammered at a weakened Roosevelt, who finally gave in most reluctantly. The Gallup poll published on July 18, 1944 indicated that among the rank-and-file I had 65 percent of the vote and Truman only 2 percent. I would have been named in 1944 if Hannegan and Flynn had kept their hands off the delegates...
There is no evidence for Republican Chairman Leonard Hall's statement that Roosevelt admitted in 1944 that he had made a "colossal mistake" in naming me in 1940. I agree with Hall that vice presidential candidates should not be picked in the Hannegan-Pauley way. Surely today no Republicans who dislike Nixon will organize a conspiracy like that of Flynn, Hannegan and Pauley...
Owner Saigh (rhymes with high) first bought into the St. Louis Cardinals in 1947, in partnership with the late Robert Hannegan, former Democratic National Committee chairman. By 1949 he had got outright control of the Cardinals' stock (90%). But somewhere along the way, the Bureau of Internal Revenue began sniffing into Owner Saigh's financial methods, charged him with income-tax evasion. Last week in St. Louis, Saigh pleaded no-defense to the charges, was sentenced to 15 months in prison and fined...
Freshman Soccer--Minor Sport Numerals, 1956--George V. Angelis, John Bigelow, Karl N. Bjork, Henrick E. Fischer, Richard E. Fisher, Charles R. FitzGerald, Harry P. Gelles, Werner R. Genieser, John B. Hadick, Michael W. Hannegan, Francis S. Holmes, William Laimbeer, William E. Lingelbach, Dennis G. Little, Robert A. Lloyd, Wilfred F. Lorry, Hugh A. Sargent, Godfrey G. Truslow, James P. Whittal, Jr., Geoffrey M. Kalmus...