Word: farleyism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reason for Franklin Roosevelt's indulgence of the PMG is sound. In all honesty, Mr. Farley asks, "What the hell chance have I got of signing up a lot of national delegates [to the Democratic convention] out of Ickes' and Wallace's personal appointments...
President Roosevelt has looked upon his Postmaster General with an indulgent eye. Last winter the President said that party and government posts should not be held by the same persons, but Mr. Farley grinned and stayed on as Chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Again the President announced that, as a New Deal measure, all Postmasters should be put under Civil Service. Congress adjourned without anything being again heard of such a bill, and Mr. Farley laughed it off. Three weeks ago, Secretary Ickes prepared to induct John Wellington Finch of Idaho as Director of the Bureau of Mines. When...
...Emil Hurja, onetime newspaperman who became a Farley assistant in 1932, was later put into the Interior Department to compensate for Mr. Ickes' lack of political savoir faire, and last March was moved to the Democratic National Committee, Boss Farley has an assistant after his own heart. Mr. Hurja writes the PMG's speeches, examines the political credentials of all candidates. The first question is: "Is he a Roosevelt-before-Chicago man?"; the second: "Is he endorsed by his local Democratic organization?'' If the job hunter's credentials are satisfactory, Mr. Hurja gives...
...whole Boss Farley and Assistant Hurja keep most of the patronage where they want political strength to lie, in the hands of the Roosevelt machine. They have husbanded their power and still have some jobs on hand to give where they will do the most good in next autumn's campaign. There is a Minister to be appointed to the Irish Free State, an Enumerator of Seals for the Pribilof Islands...
Virtues. The Press continually refers to Jim Farley as if he were a sore thumb on the morally well manicured hand of the New Deal. In an Administration whose chief attitude is that of being "holier than 1929" he stands out as one who makes no pretense of being other than an old-fashioned political sinner. He might point out. however, that according to the tenets of his church, confessed sinners, even the worst of them, who have the right faith in their hearts, have a better chance of getting to Heaven than Pharisees. And Mr. Farley is neither...