Word: farleyism
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Political machines are fueled by jobs, oiled by the hope of jobs to come. After four years of jobs to burn, the firm of Roosevelt, Farley & Co. entered the 1936 campaign with a machine high-powered, smooth-running, up-to-date. To compete with it, the new firm of Landon & Hamilton inherited a 1932 model apparatus, battered by its last two collisions with the Democratic juggernaut, rusted by inaction and despair. John Hamilton's job came nearer to being one of rebuilding than of repair...
...within and without the Party. His critics jibed that he was acting and talking as if he were the candidate. They complained that he was spending too much time stumping, not enough organizing. They compared his course unfavorably with the obscure but effective activities in 1932 of James A. Farley...
Having given these firm assurances to the Press in the afternoon, President Roosevelt spent the evening conferring with his campaign managers, Postmaster General Farley, Pressmaster General Michelson, Moneymaster General W. Forbes Morgan, and their underlings...
...there is one person U. S. War Veterans should cordially dislike, it is Franklin D. Roosevelt, who twice vetoed their Bonus Bill. To persuade them that the President is still their best bet in the White House, National Democratic Chairman Farley last week patched together a Veterans Advisory Committee of Spanish War Veterans, Veterans of Foreign Wars, et al. To head this committee he appointed fat, jovial Louis Arthur ("Louie") Johnson, onetime (1932-33) National Commander of the American Legion. Legionary Johnson is also an Elk, a Shriner, a Mason and an Odd Fellow, all of which sodalities consider...
...other sports are again drawing record crowds and Roosevelt is the answer." Thus last week did onetime fisticuffer William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey, who thinks it is funny to burn unsuspecting friends through their shoes with a lighted cigar (see cut),* justify his appointment by Boss James A. Farley as New York State head of the Sports Division of the Democratic National Committee...