Word: farleyism
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...Whisper. Newspapers, after that, were full of stories of a rift between Farley and Roosevelt, who finally summoned Farley to Hyde Park. After dinner they talked...
...little later, at a White House dinner at which Mrs. Farley was seated next to Roosevelt, he turned to her and remarked: "I'm having a terrible time, Bess; they're trying to make me run and I don't want...
...Farley recalled: "I had the feeling that the President ... had flattered this Prince of the Church into doing his bidding...
Cardinal Mundelein brought up the subject of Mrs. Farley. "There has been some criticism of Mrs. Farley-some things she is supposed to have said about the President...
...That's all right," Farley told him. "Mrs. Farley is a loyal wife. . . . Bess feels we have been treated like poor relations. We are never invited to the White House except for purely official functions...