Word: farleyism
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...Farley and Carter Glass came a genuine ovation, short and loud, but mixed with booing. Loyally the Farley-men stood up, waved banners. But Mayor Kelly's organist was silent. The band forgot to play. In a moment the Farley "parade" was over...
...hour and ten minutes later, at 1:38 a.m., Franklin Roosevelt had been nominated by the Democratic Party for a third term-it was a first time in U. S. history. The vote: Roosevelt 946½, Farley 72½, Garner 61, Tydings 9½. (In the Senate Office Building John Nance Garner stayed incommunicado for a week...
...eyes. No one believed John Garner would ever come back.) In the closing moments Texas' Sam Rayburn had withdrawn Garner's name, Senator Tydings had withdrawn his own name in a statement that was like the slap of a barber's cold towel, and big Jim Farley asked to be permitted to make a statement "without interruption...
Said James Aloysius Farley, 52, the brickmaker's boy from Grassy Point, N. Y.: now that he was assured that the Democratic Convention had been democratic, now that the delegates' will had been registered, he moved that the rules be suspended and Mr. Roosevelt nominated "by acclamation." The great hall shook with the roar for big Jim. "Chip" ("Chippie" to some of his acquaintances) Robert ostentatiously threw his arms around Farley, waving to the photographers to get the picture. To the tune of When Irish Eyes Are Smiling, the convention adjourned...
Said Delegate Durbin: "The only thing I don't like in Chicago is the Tribune and the Hearst newspapers." There were cheers and boos. "For God's sake, Mr. President, if you are listening in, let's have someone like Jim Farley! . . ." Then Rebel Durbin came to his point: "I have a candidate. I nominate Mr. Bascom Timmons of Texas...