Word: farleyism
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Running on the Republican ticket, LaGuardia had been endorsed by the head of the Democratic Party, Franklin Roosevelt, opposed by Democratic National Chairman Edward J. Flynn and James A. Farley, Flynn's predecessor and President Roosevelt's onetime Man Friday...
...lineups: HARVARD JAYVEES M.I.T. Lawrence, le re, Dunwoody Mallett, lt rt Small Sosman, lg rg, Anisz LaCroix, c c, Foote Goethals, rg lg, Givens Ellis, rt lt Sadowski Farley, re le Evans Kamp, qb qb, Leader Loring, lhb rhb, Crosby MacLellan, rhb lhb, Bunn Tine, fb fb, McBride
Delighted, LaGuardia grabbed a head of cabbage from a stall, held it up for photographers, said: "My opponent's head." Farley: "... A man who has openly and publicly made himself a liar, a speaker of insult . . . obscene language . . . wording so low . . . any individual so depraved as to dirty his tongue with uttering them . . . who believes in hypocrisy in action and filth in language." LaGuardia: "To quote two of their own county chairmen: 'That dope Herbie'" [meaning Lehman...
Flynn: "... A mucker who has run amuck ... a demagogue of demagogues . . . the greatest faker on the American political scene ... the most super-colossal hypocrite . . . clown . . . this mountebank Mayor." Farley: "Breast-beating faker." Lehman: ". . . Shameless, scurrilous . . . insulting and vicious...
...critics wondered, for example, about Arch-Tory War Secretary Captain H. D. R. Margesson, who had once been Neville Chamberlain's Jim Farley. They wondered about Arch-Tory Ambassador to the U.S. Lord Halifax, who had publicly declared that the time was not ripe for Britain to invade Europe. They wondered about Arch-Tory Aircraft Production Minister Lieut. Colonel J. T. C. Moore-Brabazon, who had been accused of expressing the wish that the Germans and Russians would exterminate each other...