Word: farleyism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...against John O'Connor for Congress in 1934, lost by 101 votes. Since 1935 he has held a $4,600 job as Chief Field Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue. His platform this year: 100% for Roosevelt. His most earnest hope: that Franklin Roosevelt or James Aloysius Farley will have time for at least one speech in the Gashouse before election...
This rationalizing is hard-boiled and runs as follows: 1) The Liberal party's present leader and inspirer was the creature of the Democratic political barons. In fact, until Jim Farley did his job in 1932, Franklin Roosevelt was only one more baron; 2) A Liberal party will always be a "poor" party, therefore ideas must make it tick instead of money; 3) If the New Deal is to survive under Franklin Roosevelt or anyone else, as a Liberal party beyond 1940, its ideas must be churned into the local electorates, right down into the precincts whence Congressional...
...been heard of." Tom thinks Ben ought to get Cardozo's place on the Supreme Court. They call themselves catalysts-agents who cause reactions to occur without themselves being altered. Despite the seeming change in Corcoran, into a politician with power for the moment as great as Jim Farley's, this remains essentially true. Ambition for high office does not trouble him now because he has more exciting occupations. If he held an important office, he would have to observe rules of the game. As it is. Corcoran & Cohen are beyond the rules. They are engaged in making...
...archdiocese. Forty-six years a priest, but never pastor of a church. Cardinal Hayes was the first native-born shepherd (which he liked to call himself) of New York. His steady rise in the church he owed to scholarship, administrative ability and an association with his predecessor, John Cardinal Farley, to whom he was successively assistant, secretary, chancellor and auxiliary bishop...
Four years ago Manhattan's spunky 5 ft. 4 in. Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia began bucking Postmaster General Jim Farley, Mayor Meyer Ellenstein of Newark...