Word: farleyism
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Among the many arguments advanced in favor of the President's plan for reorganization of the Supreme Court, the question of speed is a favorite one among such men as Homer Cummings and James Farley. Taking a pious and sanctimonious attitude, these gentlemen contend that there is such a crying need for social legislation of the NRA and AAA type, that delay is impossible. We are told that a constitutional amendment to legalize minimum wage laws and maximum hours of work regulations would take too long to put through, and that no time must be wasted in achieving this desired...
...pressing that the passage of those laws couldn't wait until the Constitution had been properly amended. There have always been excitable cranks who have been so convinced of the inherent justice of their proposals, that they were unwilling to tolerate delay or opposition. Messrs, Cummings and Farley have lost no time in telling the world that what they have to offer is so valuable that the American people can't even be given time to consider it. They would have us believe that their way is the only way, and that American forms of constitutional change are out-moded...
...dressed up along with 1,700 other citizens, President & Mrs. Roosevelt went out to dine in the grand banquet hall of the Mayflower Hotel. It was a testimonial dinner in honor of Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley. The President's personal tribute was an address in which he said: ''History . . . may even add his name to the distinguished list of major prophets. Even as the name of William Jennings Bryan sometimes suggests the arithmetic of 16 to 1, so perhaps the name of Jim Farley will suggest the more modern arithmetic of 46 to 2." Mr. Farley...
Then disaster struck. United Aircraft & Transport, one of the chief butts of the celebrated Roosevelt-Farley air mail crackdown, was forced to split up. Bitterly attacked in Senate hearings after he displayed paper profits of $51,000,000 from an original investment of $487,119, Founder Bill Boeing was forced out of his job as chairman of United, did not return to the Boeing factory. At present he is a partner in the potent New York Stock Exchange firm of E. A. Pierce & Co. To succeed him in Boeing, the stockholders, no one of whom now owns more than...
...ordeal of Repeal regulations, or Distiller Owsley Brown of Louisville, whom Mr. Morgan replaces as the Institute's president. What the Institute was out for was a Tsar of high power, smoothness and influence. In fact, among those first approached was none other than Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley...