Word: aloysius
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tammany district leader. By 1932 Hurja knew his way around Wall Street better. Among his acquaintances were such men as Bernard Mannes Baruch, Bernard ("Sell 'Em Ben") Smith and Frank C. Walker, Montana lawyer. Mr. Walker introduced Mr. Hurja and his sheets of figures to Democratic Chairman James Aloysius Farley. In June that year Mr. Hurja again served as delegate from Alaska at the national Democratic convention, continued on at Party headquarters as an aide to Mr. Farley in the statistical analysis of political trends...
Morning after last week's Jackson Day Dinner in 2,000 cities (see p. 11), James Aloysius Farley awakened in Washington to discover that the party he bosses had eaten itself out of its $400,000 deficit in a single night. Invigorated by the news, Boss Farley hurried to the Willard Hotel to put some iron into his fellow members of the Democratic National Committee, gathered for the first big war talk of the 1936 campaign. From his opening remarks, it was clear that Boss Farley still had political money on his mind...
Pleased last week with the world, the flesh and the U. S. Supreme Court were Gustavus F. Swift, Robert H. Cabell, Edward Aloysius Cudahy, Edward Foss Wilson, all U. S. packers of meat. In November 1933, the U. S. Government begar collecting a pork-processing tax. Set at $2.25 per cwt. of pig slaughtered, the tax yielded $255,000,000 by June 1935. Then packers went to court, got injunctions against further tax collections until AAA's constitutionality could be determined. The special tax funds, in escrow, awaited the Supreme Court's decision. Last fortnight the AAA became...
...James Aloysius Robert Quinn, owner of the Red Sox for ten disastrous seasons (1923-1933), was awarded the franchise of the defunct Boston Braves. With the aid of Charles Francis Adams, majority stockholder of the old organization, and others, he will pay off the Braves' creditors, raise enough new money to rejuvenate his team...
Tide, marketing tradesheet. investigated the drugstore buying habits of Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley, reported: "Mr. Farley buys Squibb toothpaste. He also buys Squibb Shaving Cream. He's a heavy user of Listerine and pretty regular on Wrigley's (Spearmint). He never buys patent medicines...