Word: farleyism
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While the candidacies of Jim Farley, Jack Garner and Millard Tydings ran their brief, unhappy course, while the anti-Third Term resolution was booed to the flag-draped rafters, while delegation after delegation said its say for Franklin Roosevelt, the President played host to a radio party of friends and trusted helpers. In the historic study that is saturated with the memories of critical scenes and critical decisions, he sat attentive beneath a painting of John Paul Jones...
...Potomac returned to the Navy Yard dock; the President returned to the White House. Washington headquarters of the Democratic National Committee shifted to the White House switchboard its private line to Chicago. The President called Jim Farley, extended his good wishes for the convention. "How are things going?" he asked. "Okay," said Jim Farley. Secretary of State Cordell Hull, preparing to leave for Havana, stopped to lunch with the President. Said White House Spokesman Steve Early: "Probably nobody will believe it, but they're going to talk about the Havana Conference...
...Farley remembers the years: 1928, when he managed Franklin Roosevelt's first campaign for the Governorship of New York; 1930 and immediately thereafter, when Tammany's Farley and a few discerning others began to think that their Governor might be a President; and the Governor's casual okay when Jim Farley put out the first Presidential feelers; 1932, and the cross-continent marathon of Farley handshaking, letter writing, spade work which preceded Mr. Roosevelt's nomination at Chicago...
Then the years in Washington. Postmaster General and Democratic Chairman James A. Farley went deep into debt (on his $15,000-a-year salary), took many a rap while working as hard and loyally as ever for "The Boss." But also, in the politician's simple conviction that The Party is everything, he worked for the Democratic Party. Lately he had also worked for himself, on the thrilling but consistent premise that perhaps he might be his Party's next instrument in the White House...
Months of Indecision. Last week Jim Farley all but said that the Party was in a hell of a shape in a hell of a year. The man who had put it in its condition was Franklin Roosevelt, to whom The Party is merely a means to a larger end. Mounting strain had become almost intolerable. It was caused by an unanswered question: Was Franklin Roosevelt going to run for a Third Term...