Word: farleyism
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...first time in 14 months, Franklin Roosevelt and his onetime best friend had a heart-to-heart talk last week. James Aloysius Farley dropped in for lunch. But it was hardly a sentimental reunion. Cooking at the White House were some very practical New York State politics. Observers were ready to predict, when Farley came out, that the next Governor of New York was all but elected. The choice: John James Bennett Jr., the State's Attorney General, an unknown to the U.S. at large...
...following students received certificates for completion of the Harvard course in Naval Science and Tactics, and will receive their commissions later: Eliot Farley, Jr., Wellesley; Rochester H. Rogers, Jr., Rochester, N. Y.; Henry B. Stone, Providence, R. I.; and Gilbert F. Whittemore, Roslindale...
Lehman's withdrawal left in the Democratic saddle onetime Postmaster General James A. Farley, who has most of New York's Irish county leaders at his stirrup. Now anti-Third-Termer Farley had a good chance to name his own candidate at the Democratic primary convention in September. Right now Farley's candidate is Attorney General John J. Bennett Jr., an honest, painstaking administrator who makes neither mistakes nor vote-catching headlines...
Some figured that colorless John Bennett was merely filling in for the first lap, would toss the baton to Farley himself at convention time. Washington New Dealers-who want no part of Farley or a Farley lieutenant-made sweet cooing sounds to statesmanlike Owen D. Young, former General Electric board chairman, who might be persuaded to run if the nomination came on a dignified platter...
...Harvey, 2b 8 2 4 0 Fitzgibbons, 1b 8 1 2 1 Barnes, rf 10 1 3 0 Callanan, c 8 1 3 0 Clay, lf, p 7 0 1 0 Drake, ss 7 1 3 2 Whittemore, 3b 5 1 0 2 Farley...