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...Chicago, Democratic Chairman Bob Hannegan came aboard for a quick political conference, and after the Presidential party traveled on Hannegan kept in touch by telephone. The train rolled into a siding in a big West Coast naval base the day the convention began...
Scene I: Washington. At that White House meeting were present the Democratic National Chairman, strapping Bob Hannegan, Chicago's Boss and Mayor, Ed Kelly, and four others. The visitors had political business with the President; they wanted to name over the various Vice Presidential possibilities : Henry Wal lace, Truman, "Assistant President" Jimmy Byrnes, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, Senator Alben Barkley. The President indicated, in each case, that it would be a pleasure to run with the man named. It was said that tears came to Franklin Roosevelt's eyes when Jimmy Byrnes was mentioned; everyone there...
Scene II: the Blackstone. To Bob Hannegan's three-room suite in the venerable old Blackstone Hotel, two nights before the convention, went P.A.C.'s Chair man Sidney Hillman and C.I.O. President Phil Murray. Also present: Postmaster General Frank Walker. Mincing no words, Messrs. Hillman & Murray told Bob Hannegan and Frank Walker that Jimmy Byrnes was not acceptable to P.A.C. Reasons: 1) he is a confirmed Southerner; 2) as OWMobilizer, he has held wages down. Hillman and Murray then went a good deal farther. No Southerner, they said, would get P.A.C. backing. Jimmy Byrnes gracefully withdrew. P.A.C...
...wrote Franklin Roosevelt in a letter to Democratic Chairman Robert Hannegan last week...
...Faces. But one trouble with Bob Hannegan's list, and all the others put out by newsmen and dopesters, was that they all had the same old faces. Newest face was that of Oklahoma's rambunctious, New Dealing Governor Robert S. Kerr, who last week was busy trying out his convention keynote speech on his six-year-old son. (According to one dispatch, the son was bored...