Word: aloysius
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spirit of vast good will James Aloysius Farley invited the employes of the Post Office Department in Washington to a handshaking bee. The staff lined up, began filing past their beaming boss. To each the Postmaster General wished a cheery "Merry Christmas and Happy New Year," or, if the employe beat him to that, a jovial "The same to you." At the 500 mark the Farley handshake and greeting had grown automatic. The 1,000th guest found him shaking feebly, speaking thickly. Employe No. 1,089 was a young woman who gigglingly exclaimed : "So you are the Postmaster General?" Mumbled...
When James Aloysius Farley, who had done well selling building materials, took over the Post Office Department last year he announced in his quiet way that he was going to show the nation how its "largest single business" should be run. Last July the Postmaster General radioed to President Roosevelt aboard the Houston a triumphant vindication of his boast: "I have the honor to inform you that pre-audited figures for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1934, show, after making the usual adjustments authorized by law for certain subventions and free mailing services, that our postal receipts exceeded expenditures...
...last week James Aloysius Farley could dress up in a dinner coat, sit on a desk in Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel, grin like an Easter egg, swing his feet and very properly crow: "The New Deal has been magnificently sustained. . . . Our majority in the U. S. Senate and our ma jority in the House. . . . The greatest plurality ever given to Democratic candidates...
...last week's election. Next day the nation which two years ago overwhelmingly ousted the 31st President from the White House rejected Mr. Hoover's political advice with even greater emphasis and whittled the Republican opposition in the Senate down to a historic low. Democratic Boss James Aloysius Farley had asked for a two-thirds Democratic majority in the Senate to support President Roosevelt. With a roar of approval the country uprose to give him what he wanted-and more. So complete was the rout of Senate Republicans that Boss Farley could well remark on Election Night: "Famous...
Stopping off in Manhattan, he triumphantly appeared at the office of his new political chief, No. 1 Democrat James Aloysius Farley. Mr. Farley told him to call him "Jim." Then down to Washington marched Upton Sinclair to be welcomed by such socially-minded members of the White House inner circle as Harry Hopkins and Secretary Wallace...