Word: aloysius
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...violating the law may be barred from use of the mails. Since holding companies representing some 80% of the U. S. utility business refused to register with the Securities & Exchange Commission, the major part of the industry was last week probably violating the law. This put Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley in a tight spot. He finally wriggled out by announcing that he had no intention of cracking down on utility letter-writing-"at least not before the validity of the Act is judicially determined by the Supreme Court...
Whatever the critics thought made no difference to the general public. It swept into the gallery in droves, gaped at slick prettified likenesses of Will Rogers, William Randolph Hearst, Richard Barthelmess, Eddie Rickenbacker, and James Aloysius Farley, lingered longest over lush, sleek-hipped nudes in the yellow marble lobby. Five years ago Artist Christy got a thousand or so dollars for a portrait. Today he charges his sitters...
With bland Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley primed to send her on her way and excitable Philippine President Manuel Quezon ready to receive her, the lithe new flying boat China Clipper last week floated in San Francisco Bay. On her first flight to Manila she was to carry a full load of mail, a crew of five, no passengers. Having postponed the trip once for stamp-collectors, Pan American Airways officials vowed that this time the great ship would leave on schedule-at 3:30 p. m. Pacific Time...
...course of Kentucky's gubernatorial election last week two citizens were shot dead. As a result of the election James Aloysius Farley claimed a great New Deal triumph. Neither of those commonplace occurrences was news. What did make news was the fact that a spectacular young political upstart had bucked the old-line Democratic and Republican machines which traditionally divide Kentucky's rule between them, rolled up the biggest majority for Governor in State history. The New Deal gave Lieutenant-Governor Albert Benjamin ("Happy") Chandler a helpful boost toward the Governor's chair. Governor Ruby Laffoon & friends...
...sure of anything, Champion Roosevelt could count on the National Association of Postmasters being in his corner a year from November. It was a routine prefight precaution for Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley, onetime chairman of New York State's Athletic Commission, to appear before the postmasters' Chicago convention last week and assure those loyal jobholders that slurs from the Republican camp against their man were "just plain politics...