Word: farleyism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Postmaster General Farley has been criticized up and down the land for: i) stuffing Government offices with too many deserving but incompetent Democrats; 2) exhibiting bad political strategy in his home State of New York; 3) canceling airmail contracts. But last week Postmaster Farley stole a march on the other members of the Cabinet with a shrewd stroke of business for the Government. With the appearance of a Mother's Da.y stamp bearing a copy of Whistlers Mother (with flowers in one corner), "General" Farley declared with a sure insight into the human heart...
...Captains of Industry could have devised a better piece of promotion. If the Farley announcement induced 10,000,000 citizens to write their mothers, it would bring $300,000 worth of business to the Post Office Department...
...Robbins deliberately joined Kohler after cancellation to make a test case. Because Kohler never held a contract, but operated under a subcontract which became effective only two days before Mr. Farley took office, its past record is "clean." Mr. Robbins will resign to save Kohler's face, give it a chance to bid again. But to save the industry's face he is far from done with fighting Mr. Farley...
...addition to the contracts already awarded, Mr. Farley last week asked for bids on ten new routes, as well as on two of those rejected, to be opened late this month. Thus the new airmail map, as he contemplates it, will embrace some 28,500 mi., which is 3,300 mi. more than was routed before cancellation. Because of curtailed schedules, however, there will actually be 19,000 fewer miles flown daily under the new system than under...
...Derby purse. In addition, jubilant Mrs. Sloane, first woman to win the Derby since Mrs. Payne Whitney's victory with Twenty Grand (1931) was taken down to the judges' stand to receive the $5,000 gold trophy. Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley made appropriate remarks. Bumbling Governor Ruby Laffoon of Kentucky said it gave him "inexpress-, inexp- unexplainable pleasure" to present the cup. He then turned to the microphone, urged everybody to come to Kentucky on Labor Day to celebrate the bicentennial of the birth of that great Kentuckian, that great friend of horses, "Dan'l Boone...