Word: hillmanism
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...plan: to inject a bit of fresh, leftish air into rural weeklies. His partner in this project (incorporated as Cross Country Reports) is Banker-Economist James Paul Warburg, an early New Dealer, then a fervent anti (Hell Bent for Election) and finally, in 1944, a doorbell-ringer for Sidney Hillman's P.A.C. Field and Warburg's ambition is to set up as a rival to powerful Western Newspaper Union which sends boiler-plate material ("pretty reactionary") to U.S. weeklies. Says Field, grinning: "I don't think I'll make my fortune here...
...Sidney Hillman, agile chairman of the C.I.O.'s ambitious Political Action Committee, made the most circumspect, warily-worded political prediction of the week: the P.A.C. will be active in the 1948 presidential election-"an election that could give Harry Truman the Presidency for a second term...
...counsel of his longtime colleague in the Democratic organization-National Chairman Hannegan. At the Democratic National Convention in Chicago last year, it was Hannegan who lined up the big-city machines to snatch the Vice Presidential nomination away from Henry Wallace and his chief sponsor, P.A.C.'s Sidney Hillman...
Some political observers already predicted a struggle for party control between the regular organization group and the C.I.O.-P.A.C. faction led by Sidney Hillman. Others, knowing politically wise Harry Truman, predicted that he and highly professional Bob Hannegan would be able to live in harmony with Hillman's machine...
...tool for arbitration will be the 20-man board which is being set up to implement the charter. On it are such topflight businessmen as Henry J. Kaiser, Studebaker's and C.E.D.'s Paul Hoffman, and such labor leaders as P.A.C. Boss Sidney Hillman, the C.I.O.-U.A.W.'s President R. J. Thomas, and A.F. of L. Secretary-Treasurer George Meany...