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Genial, strapping Robert Emmet Hannegan, 40, is almost unknown in national politics. Son of a St. Louis police captain, Hannegan played football, basketball and baseball at Jesuit St. Louis University (1921-25), followed this with three years of pro football and minor-league baseball. In 1934, after years of paddling around the precincts, he rose to be chairman of St. Louis' Democratic Committee and co-boss, with barrel-chested Mayor Bernard F. Dickmann, of St. Louis' tough, brassy Democratic machine...
...Nazi leaders. Gregor Strasser, then an important Hitler lieutenant, called Himmler to Munich to serve as his secretary. Kurt Ludecke, in I Knew Hitler, quotes Strasser: "[Himmler] sees in every creature who doesn't 'think' Nazi a Jew or a Jew serf, a Jesuit or a Free-Mason. He's very ambitious, but I won't take him along-he's no world beater." Nine years later, Himmler had Strasser shot...
Another story was told by the famed team of little Creighton University, a Jesuit school in the heart of Omaha, which always produces formidable basketball teams. Creighton's 42-year-old Coach Eddie Hickey has chalked up a percentage of .669 during his ten-year term, but last week, in the Chicago Stadium, Hickey's sharpshooters got their first defeat of the season from the Great Lakes Naval Training Station Bluejackets (their supersquad includes twelve onetime college stars...
Father Magni had been chosen by the late leader (or "Black Pope") Father Wlodimir Ledochowski, who died last week (TIME, Dec. 21). He will serve as vicar general until after the war, when the 150 Jesuit fathers superior in all parts of the globe can meet to elect a new general. In selecting an old man for the interim Father Ledochowski followed good Jesuit tactics in uncertain times. Had he picked a younger candidate, the vicar general might have had time to entrench himself before the election could be held. By picking a man whose age will disqualify...
Father Ledochowski's successors must go far to surpass him. In the 27 years of his rule the number of Jesuits rose from 17,000 to 27,000, passed for the first time the high mark before the Jesuit suppression of 1773. Wiry, keen-eyed Father Ledochowski started missions among the Eastern Orthodox, fought attacks on his order in Spain, Germany, Mexico and elsewhere. Despite threats from Germany and Italy, a Jesuit on his staff regularly disclosed Nazi atrocities in Europe over the Vatican radio...