Word: aloysius
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week Frank Murphy appointed as his press relations man Joseph Aloysius Mulcahy, oldtime newspaperman who "dis covered" Frank Murphy politically...
...James Aloysius Farley, 92%; voice quality good, delivery & mannerisms very good, poise excellent. Chief asset: "an easy poise that seems to say,'. . . I'll let you in on something...
...Most embarrassed president was John H. Reynolds, of small, Methodist Hendrix College in Conway, Ark. To speak and be kudized at the college's commencement he invited Roman Catholic Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley, good friend to the president of the college's board of trustees, Utilityman Harvey Couch (Arkansas Power and Light, Kansas City Southern Railway). Mr. Farley came, spoke and was kudized, but not before a number of Arkansas Methodists, among them Teetotaler Dr. A. C. Millar, a former Hendrix president, had kicked up a storm because Teetotaler James Farley had helped repeal Prohibition...
...there is alive. He is an automaton of political finesse, a tireless, viceless performer of the right word & deed at the right time for political effect. As such he is most interested in backing a candidate who will win nomination and election in 1940. If that candidate is James Aloysius Farley, that will suit him fine. If it is Franklin Roosevelt or some other, Jim Farley will accommodate himself. Meanwhile letting a boomlet for himself get under way will not loosen his hold on the party machinery...
...Otelia Compton, 80, whom Mrs. James Rooseveltt decorated as "American Mother of 1939" (her children: Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Dr. Karl T. Compton; Washington Attorney Wilson M. Compton; University of Chicago Physics Professor Dr. Arthur Compton; Mrs. Herbert Compton Rice, principal of Christian College in Allahabad, India). Grover Aloysius Whalen absented himself long enough to chitchat on Major Bowes's Amateur Hour, received 162 listener-votes as "best amateur," more than 50 of them from California...