Word: farleyism
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...many in the audience, more important than any words he spoke was the fact that big Jim Farley came on to the platform beside the President-Farley, Democratic Party symbol of opposition to the Third Term...
...that Candidate Willkie would be elected, possibly by a landslide, maybe by a majority of 5,000,000 to 8,000,000 votes. Observers held two legitimate doubts: 1) Mr. Hurja's forecasting reputation was based on his 1932 and 1936 forecasts, when he sat at James A. Farley's right hand, with all the Democratic Party's professionals in the field as his reporters. Even then his 1936 forecast was very conservative, far below the final results (Hurja said 376 electoral votes for Roosevelt; result: 523). Mr. Hurja afterwards left the New Deal, lost his power...
Charles L. Wagner is a U. S. impresario who looks like Jim Farley in a toupee and who long ago exchanged his flat Illinois drawl for rapid-fire Manhattanese. Fifty years ago he gave up collecting celebrities' autographs, began collecting them on contracts instead. Since then Impresario Wagner has barnstormed up & down the U. S. selling such big-time figures as William Jennings Bryan, John McCormack, Galli-Curci. Mary Garden, Walter Gieseking to the public...
...Flynn peering under a bed for hobgoblins; the Oregonian's cried scornfully: "A fine set of knaves to be accusing the press of misuse of its freedom!" Said Thomas Radcliffe Hutton of the Binghamton Press in Mr. Flynn's home State: "... a political blob of which Jim Farley never would have been guilty." Said the forthright Seattle Times, reverting to old-fashioned style in a bold Gothic headline: "You lie, Mr. Flynn...
...President Roosevelt's cabinet appointments last summer included all but one of the following: 1. Stimson for Woodring (War). 2. Jackson for Murphy (Attorney-General). 3. Wickard for Wallace (Agriculture). 4. Walker for Farley (Postmaster General). 5. Knox for Edison (Navy...