Word: farleyism
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Last week the Democratic Party was a burdensome nuisance to Franklin Roosevelt. Left to himself, Mr. Roosevelt might not have fretted much about finding a successor to James Aloysius Farley. But other Democrats did not share his conviction that Adolf Hitler would have more to do with the November election than the next chairman of the Democratic...
Finally the President chose Boss Edward Joseph Flynn of The Bronx, who said: "I do not hope to equal the record of my predecessor and friend, Jim Farley, but I will do my best...
...burning Hopkins mind, the President found a quality and a kinship which he found in no other human being. Alone among the men around The Man, Harry Hopkins can (but does not) boast that he is both trusted and used without stint. His latest use: to supplant Jim Farley, command the axmen realigning the Democratic Party for the Third Term campaign and thereafter...
Moley, Rex Tugwell, Jim Farley, John Hanes, et al.) were some of greater stature than the departed Assistant Secretary of War. But among them was none more loyal at the start, more bitter at the finish...
...Bill of Rights not in some way supervised or directed is the art of barbershop singing. . . ." Local chapters of the S. P. E. B. S. Q. S. A. mushroomed all over the country, now number some 200. Among the 2,000 members: Major Bowes, Groucho Marx, Jim Farley, Bing Crosby, five Southwestern Governors...