Word: farleyism
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...James A. Farley, then Chairman of the Democratic National Committee: He "neither drinks nor smokes, but chews gum." In New York, "some regard him as 'honest,' others as a politician of Machiavellian subtlety. The correct estimate of him is probably somewhere about midway between these two extremes...
...choice for Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. Smith is a Republican lawyer who went to work for the Atomic Energy Commission during the Eisenhower Administration, later became John Foster Dulles' special assistant for atomic affairs. The group also includes Arms Control Deputy Director Philip J. Farley, 53, former Deputy Defense Secretary Paul H. Nitze, 62, and Physicist Harold Brown, 42, who was Johnson's Air Force Secretary. The political adviser is Llewellyn E. Thompson Jr., 65, twice ambassador to Moscow and now Washington's ablest interpreter of Russian moods and nuances...
...James A. Farley, former Postmaster General...
Under questioning both took stands which would have been considered truly amazing a year ago. Farley, the Byrd man, said, "I will enforce the law as long as it is on the books." But he indicated by winking and a smile that he could see a change in the books of Virginia laws...
Battle beat Howell in the August run-off 52 per cent to 48, and Miller walloped Farley 64 per cent...