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...Fauset, onetime friend of Eleanor Roosevelt, onetime member of the Pennsylvania Legislature (its first and only Negro woman), quit the Democratic National Committee's offices in Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel, walked two blocks up Madison Avenue to join the G.O.P. at the Roosevelt Hotel. Said she: "Bob Hannegan is a dictator-a man who is not willing to deal democratically with Negroes...
Both the New York Times's well-informed Arthur Krock and the New York Sun's frankly GOPartisan George Van Slyke insisted last week that the phrase had a solid basis in fact. According to the story, Democratic National Chairman Bob Hannegan had gone for instructions to the President's private car as it sat on a Chicago siding just before the July convention officially began. The President, closely following the vice-presidential race, had decided to dump both Jimmy Byrnes and Henry Wallace. Worried over the dissension, he allegedly said: "Go on down there and nominate...
...phrase especially hurt Chairman Bob Hannegan, who has no affection for Sidney Hillman. Trying to clear things up, Hannegan called in the press to say the President had never instructed him to "clear everything with Sidney...
...also enlisted the help of two potent Democrats, National Chairman Robert E. Hannegan and Vice Presidential Nominee Harry Truman, both of whom are from Missouri, and both now very close to Franklin Roosevelt. Neither had to be shown that Bennett Clark was in deep trouble. Their aid was of no avail. In last week's primary Bennett Clark was snowed under. Reasons: 1) his own soggy inertia-he neglected his mail, several times stood up audiences that had come to hear him; 2) the opposition of C.I.O.'s Political Action Committee; 3) the aggressive campaign waged at every...
...light primary Democrats polled a higher vote: 324,000 to 299,000. Both parties were torn by internal dissension; both now have a hot campaigner at the top of the ticket. Bob Hannegan and Harry Truman are sure to pour in all the money and speakers necessary for a thumping campaign; the Republicans likewise. (One reason for Tom Dewey's Governors' meeting in St. Louis was to pep up the Missouri G.O.P.) If Missouri is any barometer, and it has been a true one in the past 40 years, the 1944 Presidential election will be the closest since...