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...time that he has fumbled the political efforts he has made; e.g., the New York campaign. While Flynn is able enough as the Boss of The Bronx, that wilderness of apartment houses which is the greatest single Democratic stronghold north of the Mason & Dixon line, he is no James Aloysius Farley on a national scale, and has never pretended to be. If the President is going to wrest a Democratic victory this fall, he must do it mainly alone...
Promptly, these miscellaneous characters came to him in droves. Butch was charming-in a knowing way. He spoke affectionately of the weather, digressed into politics long enough to say that State Democratic Chairman James Aloysius Farley must go. The Post's Mary Bragiotti (women's page) found him "a lovely Mayor-to us girls." The Herald Tribune's mountainous, tough-minded sports editor, Stanley Woodward, asked him what he meant by saying newsmen had no ethics. Said the Mayor: "The truth is I'm having press trouble. And I think I'm partly to blame...
...rose John J. ("Silent John") Bennett Jr., Attorney General of New York State, to make his first majrar political speech in the dingdong struggle over the Democratic nomination for the Governorship of New York. James Aloysius Farley had kept his man Bennett quiet and withdrawn from the battlefield. This stratagem had two advantages: 1) it kept Silent John from making any mistakes; 2) it left Big Jim free to smite hip & thigh the candidacy of Senator James M. Mead, the man of Franklin Roosevelt...
Blitz Tactics. One non-caller was James Aloysius Farley. Genial Jim had made a White House call early in June, had indicated that the President had approved Jim Farley's man for Governor: mild, blameless Attorney General John J. Bennett Jr. By last week 51 of the 62 county organizations, said Farley, were committed to Bennett...
...first time in 14 months, Franklin Roosevelt and his onetime best friend had a heart-to-heart talk last week. James Aloysius Farley dropped in for lunch. But it was hardly a sentimental reunion. Cooking at the White House were some very practical New York State politics. Observers were ready to predict, when Farley came out, that the next Governor of New York was all but elected. The choice: John James Bennett Jr., the State's Attorney General, an unknown to the U.S. at large...