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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...
...kind of guy-we need more men like Nunan," remarked the late Robert Hannegan of St. Louis, onetime (1943-44) Commissioner of Internal Revenue. Soon after, when Hannegan became Democratic Party Chairman, he picked Joseph D. Nunan Jr. to succeed...
...Helvering was succeeded by Robert Hannegan of St. Louis, a close personal friend of Truman and a politician who prided himself on not being rude to other politicians. Hannegan was only in the office four months. (He went on to be chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Postmaster General of the U.S., and part owner of the St. Louis Cardinals; he died in 1949.) In those four months Hannegan picked James Finnegan, a political hack, as his successor in St. Louis. He also picked his successor as commissioner of Internal Revenue, Joe Nunan, a Tammany character who had been collector...
Deal liberals, and Hannegan's heir presumptive. But he soon lost out to McGrath and retired from politics to become executive director of Theatre Owners of America (at a reported $60,000 a year). As Kefauver's manager, Sullivan will try to give the Tennessean's amateurish campaign what it sorely lacks: professional savvy and big-city organization on a national scale...