Word: farleyism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...groom's best man was Medill McCormick, son of Illinois' onetime Representative, Republican Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms, and grandson of Mark Hanna. Among the bride's guests at the church were New York's Democratic Representative Caroline O'Day and Mrs. James Aloysius Farley...
...After a White House conference with Philatelist Franklin Roosevelt, Postmaster General Farley announced the first complete revision since 1923 in the regular series of U. S. postage stamps. The new series, not yet designed, will commemorate deceased U. S. Presidents in chronological order, starting with George Washington on 1? stamps...
Hardly one fox terrier owner in ten knows that the historic mission of his dog is to chase foxes down their holes and bring them out. Nowadays not one fox terrier in a hundred does his job. But fortnight ago at Farley, Iowa, Farmer Emmet Simon, hunting with his two terriers-Tuffy and her 5-year-old daughter Spotty-sent them into a fox's den. Tuffy came out, but not Spotty. She had been trapped by a rolling stone...
...Democrats as Buchanan and Tyler smacks of party favoritism. The statement, in addition, that Hoover cannot be placed upon a stamp because he is alive seems more a political pretext than an error in fact. A note of optimism, however, creeps into the situation when one realizes that Mr. Farley has ruined his own chances of attaining stamp immortality. Yet if there is any significance in the Tribune's terse assertion that "Goddess of Freedom pictures will be discontinued," then all is lost...