Word: reinsch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cloudy Session. Before he left Washington, the President had had a cool-to-cloudy session with hypertensive Democratic Party Chairman Bob Hannegan, accepted Hannegan's decision to quit the chairmanship with few regrets. With quiet irritation, the President dropped his speech coach, J. Leonard Reinsch, from the Rio passenger list. For weeks, columnists had spread a false rumor that Reinsch would be appointed FCC chairman to succeed Chairman Charles R. Denny. The President suspected Reinsch of what he considers a cardinal sin: starting the rumor himself. Washington heard that Harry Truman had acidly been asking his close associates...
...Machine Gun. The President's radio coach was James Leonard Reinsch (rhymes with wrench), 37, managing director of the James M. Cox radio stations in Dayton, Atlanta and Miami. Picked by the Democratic National Committee to handle its radio activities, Reinsch coached Truman during and after last fall's campaign. Before he started working on him, Reinsch said, Truman talked like a machine...