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While Phase II continues, there are others anxious to get themselves on record. Henry Morgenthau Jr., Dutchess County neighbor of F.D.R., is gathering material for a book. Also in the works: memoirs of Cordell Hull, and of the late Harry Hopkins, both scheduled for 1947. Jim Farley, who in 1938 got $68,500 for a not-too-revealing autobiography, is known to have a more critical book in mind, but is in no hurry; he wants to see what others tell first. So does Anna Roosevelt Boettiger, who says "I think I will just wait." The late President himself, according...
...Butch LaGuardia probably could not be put over without a slam-bang fight. It was not likely that big Jim Farley and other conservatives would accept LaGuardia without some heavy shooting. Farley makes no bones about how much he dislikes New Dealish Jim Mead. In 1942 he had said Mead would "make a terrible Governor...
...Meadmen who offered him the convention chairmanship for his support, Jim Farley gave a curt no. New York City's Mayor William O'Dwyer said yes. So did Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt to an invitation to be the convention keynoter. If the LaGuardia boom held up, the convention at Albany on Sept. 3 would probably touch off some fancy fireworks...
...Republicans had no such inner pains. They felt that Tom Dewey's excellent record as Governor (income taxes cut by half, a $500,000,000 surplus, a rent-control act, an anti-discrimination law, etc.) made him even stronger than in 1942. Then he gave Jim Farley's John J. Bennett a terrific trouncing (and took about 40% of the New York City vote). Jim Mead scared the GOPsters not one bit; and until last week it did not seem to matter much whom Tom Dewey picked to run for the Senate. The LaGuardia boom ripped apart their...
...James E. Farley...