Word: farleyism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...McGrady's career as an honest, efficient two-fisted Washington labor lobbyist caused him to be boomed for Labor Secretary, but Franklin Roosevelt gave the job to his wife's good friend, Frances Perkins. When Postmaster General Farley recommended Ed McGrady as an assistant secretary, Madam Secretary Perkins decided she did not want him. She changed her mind after he, as an NRAdministrator, had settled the 1933 coal strike. Thereafter as her assistant he not only did all the Department's most important field work but got credit for being its ablest member. It was no more...
Some little bands should be seen but not heard. At the top of this category perch Perch Leroy ("Stuff") Smith, a colored show-off who composed I'se A-muggin', a song whose lyrics consist of counting and grunting; and the clowning Riley-Farley Band which caused a minor musical epidemic in 1936 with The Music Goes Round & Around. Well on their way toward the same sort of eminence last week were six droll musicians of St. Paul, Minn., who play under the name of the Schnickelfritz Band and whose chief assets are two trunkfuls of funny hats...
...degree of Doctor of Juridical Science. Born in Mound City, Ill. "over 60 years ago," President Houston drives a Lincoln Zephyr, gloried in his last autumn's title, "Chairman of the Speakers Bureau, National Democratic Committee, Eastern Division of Colored Voters, by appointment of Mr. James A. Farley...
...prime Democratic archer during the last Republican Administration was bushy, grey Charles Michelson. oldtime newshawk who became National Committee Publicity Director in 1929 while Jim Farley was still a boxing commissioner. So effectively did he bulls-eye his arrows, after dipping them in pure vitriol, that gasping Old Guardsmen cried out in anguish against Charley Michelson's "Smear Hoover" campaign. When the New Dealers rode into power he was called in to explain them to the country. He smoothed press relations during the Bank Holiday. He wrote speeches trying to sell NRA. In fact, he was supposed to write...
...proved a surprising vote-getter, for, like elephants, mothers never forget; they had not forgotten all the worthy advice Dr. Copeland as columnist and health commissioner had given them on the care of babies. He was elected, re-elected in 1928, re-elected in 1934, for though Jim Farley and Franklin Roosevelt did not love Dr. Copeland, they did not dare challenge the potency of the bedside manner in politics...