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...similarities between Jim Farley and Bob Hannegan are marked. Both are Irish Catholics, both started in politics as striplings, both have a great love of sports. They think that politicking is the greatest fun on earth, and that anyone who isn't a Democrat is incurably benighted. Last week Democrats, casting about for a new national chairman to replace Postmaster General Frank Walker, thought that in Bob Hannegan they had found a second Farley. This week Bob Hannegan will resign as U.S. Commissioner of Internal Revenue (a job he has held only three months) to take over direction...
Genial, strapping Robert Emmet Hannegan, 40, is almost unknown in national politics. Son of a St. Louis police captain, Hannegan played football, basketball and baseball at Jesuit St. Louis University (1921-25), followed this with three years of pro football and minor-league baseball. In 1934, after years of paddling around the precincts, he rose to be chairman of St. Louis' Democratic Committee and co-boss, with barrel-chested Mayor Bernard F. Dickmann, of St. Louis' tough, brassy Democratic machine...
Team Man. The end of the smooth-running Dickmann-Hannegan machine came in 1941, after Missouri Democrats had blundered into the colossal error of attempting to "steal" the governorship from Republican Forrest C. Donnell (TIME, March 23, 1942). Bob Hannegan's organizing talents did not lie idle long. Year later, Missouri Senators Clark and Truman boomed him for Collector of Internal Revenue in St. Louis...
...Hannegan, happy with a profitable law practice, did not want the new job. But when St. Louis newspapers screamed their editorial heads off ("An affront to thousands," said the Post-Dispatch), he determined to get it. He did, after having been investigated from hell to breakfast. Collector Bob Hannegan tried to make tax-paying as painless as possible: he eliminated long waiting lines, instructed his clerks in the rudiments of courtesy. He went to night school to study taxation...
...reward was the top job in the Internal Revenue Bureau. There he made more reforms. A significant change: the Bureau's form letters are no longer addressed to "Dear Sir" or "Dear Madam"; they now use taxpayers' full names. Weekends Hannegan has spent traveling to his bureaus, preaching efficiency and courtesy, pepping up employes' morale. "I'm an old team man," he said...