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...Roberts countered with a defiant open letter to officious, slowfooted Dickmann. It was absurd, Roberts said, to make it "legal to listen to such news [by radio] and illegal to read it" in a paper. In Washington, Dickmann's fellow St. Louisan and political sponsor, Postmaster General Robert Hannegan, agreed with Publisher Roberts, and ruled that the law didn't literally mean what it said. Henceforth "incidental reporting of a lottery" will not bar a paper from the mails...
Cloudy Session. Before he left Washington, the President had had a cool-to-cloudy session with hypertensive Democratic Party Chairman Bob Hannegan, accepted Hannegan's decision to quit the chairmanship with few regrets. With quiet irritation, the President dropped his speech coach, J. Leonard Reinsch, from the Rio passenger list. For weeks, columnists had spread a false rumor that Reinsch would be appointed FCC chairman to succeed Chairman Charles R. Denny. The President suspected Reinsch of what he considers a cardinal sin: starting the rumor himself. Washington heard that Harry Truman had acidly been asking his close associates...
Secretary of the Navy, New Hampshire's John L. Sullivan, well-traveled Under Secretary of the Navy, onetime Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, a faithful Democrat and good friend of National Chairman Bob Hannegan...
...Indiana; Oklahoma's Governor Bob Kerr; mousy Les Biffle, the Senate Democrats' masterminding policy committee director; New Dealing Judge Sherman ("Shay") Minton, who has been mentioned for every vacancy from the Supreme Court to the War Department. One old name missing from the list this time was Hannegan's young, exuberant executive assistant, Gael Sullivan, who left his chances in a Rhode Island district court last month when he pleaded guilty to a charge of dangerous driving (scaled down from drunken driving...
...name on the succession list was that of New Mexico's Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson. Like Hannegan, Clint Anderson was not feeling up to snuff. Suffering from diabetes, he had doubled his insulin treatments under pressure of his Cabinet job. His real ambition is to go to the Senate if New Mexico's Carl Hatch decides not to run again next year. But this week Clint Anderson was off for Hawaii, where he will spend the next few weeks resting up and thinking it over with Bob Hannegan at Ed Pauley's fancy Cocoanut Island hideaway...