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...favor of clamping on the price lid, put an ear to the ground. Even Chicago was out of meat, and some 40,000 unemployed packinghouse workers wanted to get back to work. Ed rushed to Washington, redder than a cop's undershirt, to join National Chairman Bob Hannegan and members of the Democratic Party's executive committee at a chicken lunch. What, they asked, could be done...
Meatless citizens would mean voteless candidates. Shamelessly they passed a resolution directing Hannegan to confer with the Decontrol Board-which is supposed to be free of politics. The resolution did not state flatly that they were for McCormack's 60-day suspension, but that was the majority sentiment. They telephoned the White House and told a presidential aide about...
...Peace . . . & Progress." In short, the President refused to play the Kelly-McCormack brand of politics. Perhaps he thought his way was better politics. Bob Hannegan gulped, threw away the resolution and announced that he and the executive committee stood "100% behind the President." The armed forces promised to help some; instead of taking 25% of the available legitimate meat they would take only 10%. Ed Kelly and the other committeemen passed a statement of policy: "Peace, production and progress-these are the watchwords of the Democratic Party for 1946 . . . under the inspired leadership of Harry Truman." Glumly they went home...
...Postmaster General-Robert Hannegan for Frank Walker (no worse...
...Then Hannegan and Sullivan were off to Chicago to assess the damage in the Midwest and to try to get the National Committee machine back on its bearings. Illinois was a fair sample of the dilemma many Democratic leaders faced. A Republican trend was running; the G.O.P. was given a good chance of cutting four of the Democrats' eleven seats in Congress out from under them. The Democratic leaders had counted heavily on a tour by Henry Wallace this month to bolster party strength in industrial districts. Now local Democrats could not drop Wallace for fear of alienating labor...