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...bosses were New Jersey's Frank Hague, Chicago's Ed Kelly, and National Chairman Bob Hannegan. They took scores of delegates into Room H and introduced them to Harry Truman. From time to time snatches of conversation drifted out: "I think we got California in shape," "Don't worry too much about Alabama," etc. TIME'S story ran for eight columns in the issue of July 31, 1944, and it took the work of a dozen good political reporters to fit all of its complicated parts together...
...most of the town's politicians. He had had a nodding acquaintance with County Judge Harry Truman in Kansas City in the '20s, but in Washington has seen him only infrequently. For the past year he has sometimes sat in at Cabinet meetings for often-absent Bob Hannegan; but he spoke only when spoken...
...figure that would make it the biggest baseball deal ever swung. But Sam Breadon, baseball's supersalesman, didn't look happy. His chin trembled and he went on haltingly: "I feel very badly. ... It's such a big organization and so successful." Bob Hannegan, who quit as Postmaster General (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) to take Sam's place as boss of the Cardinals, stepped forward to put a reassuring hand on his shoulder...
...moment for sports-loving Hannegan too: he had been a three-sport letter man at St. Louis University, an in corrigible baseball fan in Washington and a faithful follower of the football Redskins. Hannegan was the new name, but old baseball reporters couldn't keep their eyes off the old face : they had never seen Sam so visibly shaken...
...thought that Bob Hannegan & Co.* had paid anything like five times too much. But it was no secret that the Cardinal farm system was running...