Word: henningses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Handsome Tom Hennings has always been easy to get along with. Son of a St. Louis banker, he went through Cornell University easily, practiced law easily, dabbled cheerfully in politics. In Congress for three genial terms, he gave up certain re-election in 1940 to return to St. Louis at...
Few days before he left for San Juan, Tom Hennings married Mrs. Josephine Halpin, a St. Louis radio announcer who specialized in "the woman's angle." Tom and Josephine Hennings were more than merely decorative. For dreamy, reform-minded Rex Tugwell, extrovert Tom Hennings made an ideal trouble shooter...
...Tugwell popularity receded, the stock of the Henningses went up. Spanish-language newspapers boomed Tom Hennings as the next Governor. The Henningses' names appeared less & less often on the lists of functions at La Fortaleza, the highceilinged, white-walled Governor's mansion...
Fortnight ago, Tom Hennings was suddenly transferred to Pearl Harbor, some 6,000 miles away. Over the rum swizzles in San Juan's bars went rummy gossip. In Washington, testy Secretary of Interior Harold Ickes, who arranged the transfer, said: "A man has as much right to select his...
Meanwhile, the St. Louis Star-Times, ardently for Roosevelt and all his works, looked on with increasing wrath. When To the Brink appeared, the Star-Times lashed out with a caustic editorial of its own on page 1. Missouri's New Deal Representative Thomas Carey Hennings Jr. read the...