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Former Democratic Boss James A. Farley, now chairman of the board of the Coca-Cola Export Corp., sailed from Manhattan to open a bottling plant in Cork, the first in the Irish Republic...
...alumnus of Ed Kelly's political campus in Chicago, Sullivan was the fair-haired protege of Democratic National Chairman Robert Hannegan, became Second Assistant Postmaster General in 1945, and executive director of the National Committee in 1947. For a while, he was hailed as a "second Jim Farley," the hope of Fair...
Vice President Alben Barkley, who will be 75 in November, was thinking about announcing that he is a candidate. House Speaker Sam Rayburn's name was mentioned (he said he isn't a candidate). Farther afield, other names popped up: James A. Farley, Averell Harriman, Connecticut's Brien McMahon. Michigan's Governor Mennen ("Soapy") Williams said wistfully: "Some of my friends think that some day -I'm going to make...
Among the Democrats there was a rash of write-ins on the preferential ballot. Among those who got votes were James A. Farley, Eisenhower, John Foster Dulles, MacArthur, Taft, Adlai E. Stevenson, Paul H. Douglas, Stassen, and Earl Warren. These counted only a small percentage of the total...
...inflict on the home front. In the thick of these blows is Dana Andrews, a World War II veteran and reserve officer, prospering as a contractor. He sees a young employee go off to the army and death in battle. He watches while the draft board takes his brother (Farley Granger) in the midst of a juvenile romance with the daughter (Peggy Dow) of the draft-board chairman...