Word: farleyism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...difference between James Aloysius Farley and Franklin Delano Roosevelt as politicians is precisely the difference between Jack Kearns and Jack Dempsey as prize-ring professionals. Without Manager Kearns to steer him, get him matches, plan his career, World's Champion Dempsey might have been just another pug. When Jim Farley crossed the continent to attend the Elks convention in Seattle eight years ago, Frank Roosevelt was just another Governor. When Jim Farley crossed again in 1936, it was to help his champion defend his title. When he started out once more last week in his non-rumpling alpaca traveling...
Left out of account by observers who figured that Jim Farley's sole object was to line up convention delegates for himself is the fact that in politics-his profession-he is as hard-headed a man as there is alive. He is an automaton of political finesse, a tireless, viceless performer of the right word & deed at the right time for political effect. As such he is most interested in backing a candidate who will win nomination and election in 1940. If that candidate is James Aloysius Farley, that will suit him fine. If it is Franklin Roosevelt...
LYNCHBURG, Va--Postmaster-General James A, Farley, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, loved a double-barreled attack tonight upon dictatorships and New Deal opponents and predicted that the next President will be a "forward-looking individual" of the Democratic Party...
Other notables who will probably be approached by the Committee include Mary Martin, Milton, Berle, Jimmy Durante, Jimmy Walker, and Postmaster-General James A. Farley...
Gallup Polls, which probably lead public opinion as well as record it, last week showed striking increases in the strength of leading popular choices for the 1940 Presidential nominations. Among Democrats, John Nance Garner rose from a 20% choice (December) to 42%. Trailing him in order: Jim Farley, 10%; Cordell Hull, 10% ; Harry Hopkins...