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...marked with as many political barbecues and as much oratory as in years gone by, but July 4 will bring gladness to the hearts of at least 1,000 deserving Democrats. Last week, working in a swelter of job-hungry politicians, Postmaster James Aloysius Farley, patronage dispenser to the democracy, had prepared a list of i.ooo recipients of key positions in the Public Works and Home-owners Loan Administrations. The President, expected back at the White House this week, where he would begin to pay for the loyalty of a Congress which had denied him nothing, was to assign...
Australia, according to cables reaching the London Financial Times, stood resolved last week to hold aloof from the Morgenthau wheat pact, thus rendering it unfeasible, but her dynamic Resident Minister in London, Stanley Melbourne Bruce, onetime Premier, kept pestering Australian Premier Joseph Aloysius Lyons daily with long, urgent dispatches at 40? per word. Meantime as dry heat seared a U. S. crop already short, wheat soared 13? a bushel for the week. Texas wheat...
Postmaster General James Aloysius ("Jim") Farley accepted an honorary D.C.L. degree last week from the University of the South at Sewanee, Tenn. "It's my first degree," cried he. "It was a beautiful ceremony." Then "General'' Farley, a Roman Catholic, flew back to Washington without hearing how he had almost failed to get his D.C.L. The trustees of famed, conservative Protestant Episcopal Sewanee had met in special session, with Episcopal Bishop Thomas Frank Gailor presiding. For every honorary degree unanimous consent was necessary. When ballots on "General" Farley's name were scrutinized, one looked like...
Last fortnight a schoolboy in Fond du Lac, Wis. wrote to Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley, who chews gum: "What part has gum played in your success?" Gumchewer Farley wrote back, "I don't know whether gum played any part in my success, but it was not a retarding factor." Last week the boy crowed back, "My assistant principal said chewing gum was a bad habit, that no gumchewer could succeed. I read your letter in the class, and it got a lot of applause...
...Western Australia's threat to jump off the edge of nowhere. Wartime Premier William Morris Hughes called secession "a crude and futile expedient." The Attorney General told the farmers that the Commonwealth Constitution provided no means by which a state could legally secede. The Commonwealth Premier Joseph Aloysius Lyons went to reason with them and they hooted him out of the State. Their own Premier Sir James Mitchell came out for secession. Their customs revenues continued to go to the Commonwealth, by their contention, to develop the other states...