Word: farleyism
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...Franklin Roosevelt's particular room-the place where he reads, works, ponders, fondles his blue-bound naval scrapbooks, welcomes intimate friends for intimate talks. One afternoon last week, the President and a friend had a long talk in the little study. The friend was James Aloysius Farley...
More than friends, they were partners in as strange and binding a relationship as any in U. S. political history. Franklin Roosevelt of the baronial Hudson Valley, of Groton, Harvard, the Wilson sub-Cabinet, was the Democratic candidate for Vice President in 1920 when he first met Jim Farley, the Irish Catholic, grubbing young politico from plebeian Grassy Point across the Hudson and downstream. Mr. Roosevelt does not remember that meeting; it was at a crowded reception in Manhattan. Jim Farley does, in every detail, down to what his bride said, and the feel of his palm in Franklin Roosevelt...
These had been Mr. Willkie's Farley, Moley, Frankfurter, Rosenman, Howe, Hull, Wallace, Woodin and Tugwell; his braintrust and his backers, working for him-at least at first-against his will. Neither Davenport nor Root knew anything practical about winning votes and influencing people, but they did have faith, and it nearly burned them...
Democrats. Most Democratic hopefuls, numbed by the President's complete command of the 1940 nomination, contented themselves with bumbling. John Garner said nothing, mourned the ups & downs of Washington's ball club. Paul McNutt rolled back from a national tour still beating a lonesome drum. Jim Farley shook postmasters' hands. Burton K. Wheeler took a die-hard stand for Isolation. Cordell Hull, as usual, sawed wood...
President Roosevelt was the favorite Democratic candidate, bagging 61 percent of the votes. Hull got 24 percent, Garner received 4 1/2 percent and the remaining 10 percent of the votes went to McNutt, Wheeler, Jackson, and Farley...