Word: farleyism
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...erroneous . . . I shall favor a constitutional amendment. . . ." To the declaration for a "sound currency" he added "convertible into gold . . . [but not] unless it can be done without penalizing our domestic economy." To the declaration for extension of civil service, he added a special dart aimed at Postmaster Farley, weakest joint in Franklin Roosevelt's armor: "There should be included within the merit system every position in the administrative service below the rank of assistant secretaries of major departments and agencies, and . . . this inclusion should cover the entire Post Office Department...
Political oldsters began to remark with surprise that they believed John D. M. Hamilton with his cleft chin might prove a worthy match for James A. Farley with his double chin. Within 48 hours the two were at each other's throats...
...Columbus, Ohio; Charles B. Carroll '36, of Boston; Richard Cobb '36, of Brookline; Edward J. Coffey '36, of Salem; Whitney M. Cook '36, of Concord; Frank S. Deland, Jr. '36, of Cambridge; John F. Ducey, Jr. '36. of Boston; Arthur F. Duffey, Jr. '36, of Arlington; Edward T. Farley '37, of Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania; Louis C. Farley, Jr. '36, of Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania; Ernest B. Fay '36, of Lake Charles, Louisiana...
...afternoon a funeral train, with 60 Representatives and 14 Senators aboard, rolled out of Washington, bearing all that was mortal of Joe Byrns back to Tennessee for a second funeral service. Ten minutes behind it in a special train rode President Roosevelt, accompanied by Secretary Hull and Postmaster General Farley. In Nashville next day they and 45,000 of Joe Byrns's homefolk paid a last tribute to the only Tennessean to be Speaker of the House since James K. Polk in 1839, laid him to rest in a cemetery eight miles from the grave of another famed Tennessee...
...Jackson, dinners; for Jefferson, dances; for Roosevelt, dollars; such has been Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley's program for raising a campaign chest for 1936. The rich who can be persuaded to part with money for nothing this year are giving to the Liberty League. Therefore, Mr. Farley has had to turn to those who want something for their money. For Jackson's birthday he gave dinners priced up to $50 a cover. For Jefferson's birthday he gave dances at assorted prices. For Franklin Roosevelt's nomination he last week devised a scheme to give...