Word: farleyism
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...publicity given in TIME and elsewhere to the race in New York State between Mead and Bennett is just as damaging to the morale of the nation as the apparent concern of President Roosevelt and Mr. Farley in the outcome of same. If politics as usual are out for the duration, then let's cease giving the antics of politicos publicity for the duration, save perhaps mere mention...
...Farley was once again the supreme Democratic boss of New York (and its 94 delegates to national conventions). Farley's Bennett might lose in November. Certainly he faced a stiff fight with aggressive Republican Thomas Dewey (see p. 22). But after the nomination, Jim Farley received more handshakes than Bennett himself. And from all parts of the country telegrams of congratulations from Democratic leaders poured in to the man who had licked Franklin Roosevelt...
...portent came last week, when the President fought with his onetime friend Jim Farley for control of New York's 94 delegates to the Democratic National Convention (see p. 20), Another, perhaps more significant, had passed unnoticed except by the close observers: into an office in the new wing of the White House, as one of the "anonymous assistants," had moved swarthy, soft-voiced David K. Niles, political tipster and fixer extraordinary, a smooth operator who wangled $500,000 from the United Mine Workers for the 1936 Democratic war chest and who was undercover man for the New Deal...
...York's little American Labor Party, given the cut direct by Jim Farley's Democrats (see above), were not merely miffed but mad. For months they had attacked Farley and his candidate, John Bennett, as threats to labor and to Roosevelt. Pinkos had tried to smear Bennett as a Fascist by labeling him pro-Franco in the Spanish Civil...
ALPmen had been certain Farley would be defeated somehow by Roosevelt, the man who had made the party's continued existence possible. PM, the tabloid which often voices A.L.P. opinions, was so sure Roosevelt would win that it ran a gleeful headline: FARLEY: RINGMASTER WITHOUT A SHOW...