Word: farleyism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Franklin Roosevelt, having a public taste of election triumph, pointed to that placard and cried: "That sign's all right, and it's all my fault. That's one time I didn't take Jim Farley's advice. He wanted me to go into Vermont and Maine. . . . Now I'm going back to Washington-to do what they call balance the Budget and fulfill the first promise of the campaign, and after a week or so with the Budget I'm going to get some sleep, and, because I can really sleep...
James J. Walker: Roosevelt cannot be a Communist with Jim Farley and Ed Flynn as right-hand...
...James A. Farley: "In my humble judgment President Roosevelt will carry every State in the nation except Maine and Vermont. I sincerely believe this...
...down in the jubilant Democratic headquarters in Manhattan Franklin Roosevelt's political right arm, Jim Farley, was having the greatest triumph of his career, not over the Republicans but over his own staff. In a pool on Roosevelt's electoral vote he had bet on 523, 20 votes more than the next biggest optimist, and so doing...
...Clifford Ball carried the first pouch of airmail between Pittsburgh and Cleveland. In 1929 Clifford Ball Inc. extended operations to Washington, carried the first scheduled passengers across the Alleghenies. Year later the company was reorganized as Pennsylvania Airlines. In 1934 it lost its mail contract in Postmaster General Farley's celebrated blanket cancellation. Complying with changed requirements, it extended its lines to Detroit, sought a new contract, but was underbid by a brand-new concern named Central Airlines which began flying the same route. Pennsylvania then reorganized as Pennsylvania Airlines & Transport Co. and acquired Kohler Aviation Corp., which...