Word: farleyism
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...Nothing. The distinction that was made between these visitors was clear, deliberate, sometimes purposely cruel. Only 100% Roosevelt Democrats were welcome. The shock to party oldsters was frightful. Hundreds on hundreds of them went to Chicago personally acquainted with only one nationally-known Democrat, Jim Farley. Now they mobbed Big Jim in elevators, lobbies, on the street, stopping his car, clutching his hands, his clothes, asking him puzzled questions...
...what Jim Farley knew, he had pledged not to tell. And beyond that one thing he knew nothing. Scratching their heads, perplexed, anxious, the hordes went to the Hopkins headquarters. There they got rough treatment. Not a single post-Convention promise was made to them, and only one pledge was exacted from them : unquestioning obedience to the New Dealers...
There remained only big Jim Farley. What Harry Hopkins & Co. wanted was a real draft: nomination by actual acclamation. Failing this, the Janizariat wanted a nomination by apparent acclamation. But Mr. Farley stood solidly in the way, and no nomination opposed by the only Democrat beloved from end to end of the party could be made to seem unanimous...
...platform, the National Committee Secretary, Lawrence Wood ("Chip") Robert Jr., conspicuously avoided Big Jim Farley, his chief for four years. The demonstration ground mechanically on, Mr. Garry's screams cross-hatching the other roars into a welter of crazy sound...
...operator lowered the microphone, and Glass's hoarse whisper filled the stadium: ". . . An incomparable Democrat ... a man on whose word every human being can always rely. . . . Thomas Jefferson. . . . Since I have been sitting on this platform I have had two anonymous communications objecting to Jim Farley because he is a Catholic...