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...most of the motive power. Day after day on his western tour Franklin Delano Roosevelt, with speeches widely acclaimed as making sense, held the front pages of the nation. Close beside him at every turn could be seen the rosy bald spot of his astute manager, National Chairman James Aloysius Farley whose purpose, like that of a good boxer, is to keep the Republicans constantly on the defensive, force the fighting. William Gibbs McAdoo who pulled the Roosevelt nomination out of William Randolph Hearst's hat at Chicago ostentatiously joined the Governor's party as it entered California, planted himself...
Groaning Stalk. A tall, tough stalk growing in this Democratic garden was James Aloysius Farley, Convention manager for Franklin Delano Roosevelt of New York. Yet even he looked wilted and broken when he clumped into his Congress Hotel suite last Friday morning after an all-night session at the Stadium. In those dragging hours a sullen minority had blocked, if not beaten, his candidate's nomination. Manager Farley dropped into a chair and groaned...
While one publisher was pulling in his horns last week another, hitherto not widely famed, was looming on the horizon of U. S. magazine publishing. The advancing figure was that of gruff-voiced Frank Aloysius Tichenor, publisher of Aero Digest and Sportsman Pilot. Last week found him in control of a strange new collection: The Spur, Plumbers' & Heating Contractors' Trade Journal, The Port, Outlook & Independent...
...Frank Aloysius Tichenor is much more believable as publisher of Outlook than as publisher of Spur. Rough-&-ready, earthy, amazingly energetic, simple in his tastes, his interests lie far afield from Spur's studied elegance. He is a natural and practiced politician. Now a Republican, he is convinced that the time is nearly ripe for a Third Party, sees an opportunity to rebuild Outlook's influence to what it was in Roosevelt...
Grover Jr., II, son of Manhattan's one-time Police Commissioner Grover Aloysius ("Gardenia") Whalen, fell from his bicycle, gashed his neck on a picket fence...