Word: farleyism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Welcomed on the White House lawn 4,000 postmasters in convention assembled, quoted Herodotus, Job, Wilson, Charles W. Eliot and Jim Farley in his brief remarks...
Last week in Washington 4,600 delegates to the National Association of Postmasters' Convention, having congratulated Postmaster General Farley for showing a"net operating surplus of $10,000,000" for the last fiscal year, praised his "humane and efficient leadership," sat down to a feed. They ate up, among other things, 25 gallons of olives, 1,800 breasts of capons. Then they settled back to hear their boss tell them that "the U. S. Post Office and its people constitute the greatest public service in existence today...
Guest of honor at Boss Farley's big party was the shy and unassuming woman who has outlasted 13 Presidents of the U. S. -81-year-old Miss Mary W. Stewart, still postmistress of Oxford, Md., after 62 years...
...bouquet of roses presented to her at the banquet, a menu signed by Jim Farley, a waltz with an unknown postmaster. "Our badges were our introduction," she explained. "I love to dance-the waltz glide, not this hopping around." Then back she went to her post office on the Eastern Shore, for bi-monthly stocktaking...
...Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau rushed last week from Bergen, Norway, in the Coast Guard cutter George W. Campbell to St. John's, Newfoundland, whence Coast Guard planes relayed him to Washington. Postmaster General Farley, after visiting Poland and France and kissing the "Blarney Stone" in Eire, was homebound aboard the S. S. Manhattan. *Attorney General Murphy announced there was "no spy angle" to the Bremen search. He also said last week: "There will be no repetition of the situation in 1917 when a democracy was unprepared to meet the espionage problem...