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...Sullivan, 47, took over as national chairman of the Kefauver for President Committee. A native Rhode Islander, a parochial schoolmate of former Attorney General Howard McGrath and an alumnus of Ed Kelly's political campus in Chicago, Sullivan was the fair-haired protege of Democratic National Chairman Robert Hannegan, became Second Assistant Postmaster General in 1945, and executive director of the National Committee in 1947. For a while, he was hailed as a "second Jim Farley," the hope of Fair...
...been swift. A graduate of Princeton and Harvard Law School, he practiced law, joined the Air Forces in 1942, ended the war as a major in the Air Transport Command, then entered Government service as an attorney and got a job as assistant to the late Postmaster General, Robert Hannegan. Harry Truman spotted him. He was put in the Bureau of the Budget, and was made its director after only one year. As Washington could see, Pace was a comer...
Died. Robert Emmet Hannegan, 46, whose rise from St. Louis ward boss to a key spot in the Democratic Party helped put Harry Truman in the White House; of a heart ailment; in St. Louis. As a St. Louis party whip, Hannegan backed Senator Truman's renomination in the 1940 Missouri primary; as chairman of the Democratic National Committee (1944-47). he led the fourth-term fight, persuaded F.D.R. to drop Henry Wallace as running mate and pressured the convention into picking Truman. Rewarded with the postmaster-generalship (1945), Hannegan i resigned his political jobs a year later...
Regularity Counts. County Judge Harry Truman took a fancy to the youngster. When Senator Truman headed up the War Investigating Committee, he sent for Boyle to be his assistant counsel. In 1944 Boyle was called in again to help ailing Bob Hannegan run the Roosevelt-Truman campaign. On the side-the patronage boss gets no pay-he makes an unspectacular but comfortable living practicing law in Washington...
...Louis, ex-Postmaster General Bob Hannegan stepped down last week after little more than a year as president of the Cardinals, and sold out to his partner for a rumored $1,000,000. The new president and majority stockholder (90%): Fred M. Saigh Jr., 43, St. Louis lawyer and big-time real-estate operator. Said Saigh: "I have decided there is no mystery about baseball. It's just like any other business; you have to have experts in all departments...