Word: farleyism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...purple robes swirling, his broad countenance twinkling, Bishop Ryan shook hands with such men as Ambassador Hans Luther of Germany, Assistant Attorney General Joseph Berry Keenan, Bishop James Edward Freeman and Canon Anson Phelps Stokes from the Episcopal Cathedral. President Roosevelt sent a letter which Postmaster General Farley read. Mr. Justice Pierce Butler of the U. S. Supreme Court and Secretary of Agriculture Wallace made speeches...
Joseph Galvin of the law firm f Herrick, Smith, Donald and Farley will represent George; Arthur J. Santry '12 will defend Ryan. Former District Attorney Bushnell has been active in the defense...
Determined partisans can always be counted on to read national significance into the most insignificant of local elections. Because New York is the home State of Franklin D. Roosevelt and his political generalissimo. James A. Farley, its election of Assemblymen last week provided such partisans with a bare bone for gnawing. The President's part was to sit at Hyde Park and serve in silence as a rabbit's foot to bring luck to Democratic candidates. The part of the Postmaster General was to serve, in anything but silence, as the donkey's head. As chairman...
What hopeful Boss Farley forgot was that neither when Roosevelt was elected Governor in 1930 nor when he was elected President in 1932 did the Democrats win the New York Assembly. Save for last year's New Deal landslide, the Democrats had not won the Assembly in 22 years, because New York is so gerrymandered that they need more than plain majorities to prevail against Republicans. Day after last week's election which sent 82 Republicans, 68 Democrats to the Assembly, the Postmaster General remembered his history. His alibi: in spite of defeat, 500,000 more Democratic than...
...course of Kentucky's gubernatorial election last week two citizens were shot dead. As a result of the election James Aloysius Farley claimed a great New Deal triumph. Neither of those commonplace occurrences was news. What did make news was the fact that a spectacular young political upstart had bucked the old-line Democratic and Republican machines which traditionally divide Kentucky's rule between them, rolled up the biggest majority for Governor in State history. The New Deal gave Lieutenant-Governor Albert Benjamin ("Happy") Chandler a helpful boost toward the Governor's chair. Governor Ruby Laffoon & friends...