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Sailing from Manhattan last week for a vacation in Ireland, James Aloysius Farley risked his shining reputation as a prophet with a new prediction. The man who was right about Election solemnly declared: "It is my firm belief that the country will soon have the most prosperous time in all its history. . . . This Christmas will be the best and most prosperous in the history of the nation. I am sure that we will see people spending more money than in any previous Administration...
...summer of 1935, seven smart Manhattanites, including George McAneny, banker politician, Grover Aloysius Whalen, supersalesman and onetime Police Commissioner, and R. H. Macy & Co.'s President Percy Selden Straus, came together to discuss Mr. McAneny's theory that New York could outdo Chicago with a World's Fair even bigger & better than the Century of Progress. After a summer of conversations, Mr. McAneny & friends invited 121 Manhattan bigwigs to a meeting at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, proposed to them a plan for a World's Fair company. From the enthusiasm of that occasion sprang the most...
...Wesleyan freshmen. Governor Lehman's defeated rival, William Francis Bleakley, back to his law practice at Yonkers, N. Y. Michigan's Governor-elect Frank Murphy, a flight to the Philippines. Massachusetts' Senator-elect Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., to Bermuda. Democratic Boss James Aloysius Farley, to Ireland. National Republican Chairman John Daniel Miller Hamilton, to Manhattan, to worry about an estimated $1,300,000 party deficit. Vice President John Nance Garner, in Uvalde, Tex., stayed put, as did Senator William Edgar Borah, in Boise, Idaho, after narrowly escaping pneumonia. Governor Alf Landon, duckhunting. New Jersey's Senator...
...were hurt. Comeback: "No, I jump off this building every day to limber up for business." Thousands of subsequent Foolish Questions were published, followed by I'm the Guy, an equally celebrated series. Sometimes as sardonic as his cartooning idol, San Francisco's salty Thomas Aloysius ("Tad") Dorgan, Rube Goldberg fathered in his drawings such sayings as "It's a lot of baloney!" "Now that you've got it, what are you going to do with it?" and "They all look good when they're far away...
...James Aloysius Farley last week transferred his base of operations from Washington to Manhattan, his job from part-time Postmaster General to full-time chairman of the Democratic National Committee (TIME, July 20). Three days before making this ectoplasmic shift for the duration of the campaign, he announced the appointment of Franklin D. Roosevelt's great & good friend Frank Comerford Walker, onetime head of the dormant National Emergency Council and Democratic National Treasurer in 1932, as active chairman of the Democratic National Finance Committee...