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Scene II: the Blackstone. To Bob Hannegan's three-room suite in the venerable old Blackstone Hotel, two nights before the convention, went P.A.C.'s Chair man Sidney Hillman and C.I.O. President Phil Murray. Also present: Postmaster General Frank Walker. Mincing no words, Messrs. Hillman & Murray told Bob Hannegan and Frank Walker that Jimmy Byrnes was not acceptable to P.A.C. Reasons: 1) he is a confirmed Southerner; 2) as OWMobilizer, he has held wages down. Hillman and Murray then went a good deal farther. No Southerner, they said, would get P.A.C. backing. Jimmy Byrnes gracefully withdrew. P.A.C...
After the convention had run two days, the Chicago Tribune ran a front-page cartoon, in four colors, showing Sidney Hillman playing Cardinal Wolsey to Henry Wallace's Cromwell (with a tin can tied to his robes). Earlier, the Tribune had called Sidney Hillman a "kingmaker," and enthusiastically described how he and Senator Harry Truman breakfasted over croissants and cafe au lait in Hillman's room at the Ambassador East Hotel. (Actually, they both had orange juice, bacon & eggs, coffee...
...Tribune was not alone in noting the power in the Democratic Party of Sidney Hillman, chairman of the C.I.O.'s Political Action Committee (TIME, July 24). Delegates felt it, and so did the bosses, who were forced to scramble and sweat hard to head off P.A.C.'s tough, emotional though amateur drive for Henry Wallace...
...Here P.A.C.'s assistant chairman, Calvin ("Beanie") Baldwin, and its research director, smooth, balding Economist J. Raymond Walsh, held sway, totting up the Wallace count, working on delegates, calling the printer for more placards. Across the hall was a small room, with the blinds half-drawn, where Sidney Hillman took catnaps between conferences...
...latest book, a biography of Hillman's great needle trades rival, Dave Dubinsky, Stolberg calls Hillman "a typical ham Machiavelli who almost always outsmarts himself...