Word: farleyism
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Embarking at Annapolis on the Sequoia, the President was accompanied by Senator Robinson, Postmaster General Farley, Speaker Byrns, Vice President Garner. After an afternoon's fishing in the Bay they went ashore at Jefferson Islands, later to find almost every good Democrat in the District of Columbia on hand for an old fashioned political get-together...
...short, the mixed currents of Democratic politics came to a grand crossing at Jefferson Islands. Party peace was the purpose and to that end Boss Farley took along a dossier full of patronage requests, Dr. Tugwell his ingratiating personality, and, above all, Franklin Roosevelt, his smile...
What balm was mutually poured on hurt wounds, what pledges of goodwill were exchanged during that happy Sunday, no one present cared to say. Sunday evening when the Sequoia docked at Annapolis, the President had nothing to say. Neither had Vice President Garner nor "General" Farley. Several hours later other members of the party got back to Washington, content but uncommunicative. One guest, breaking the golden silence on condition that he remain anonymous, confided that he had seen Secretary Ickes and Senator Tydings, arm-in-arm, laughing and jesting convivially...
...Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. Sitting in a covered stand before the White House while the Shriners marched past him in a pouring rain, he was in high spirits, because by his telephoned request two of his best Roman Catholic advisers, Postmaster General Farley and SEChairman Kennedy, had hurried over to join him in honoring the Protestant "Nobles" plodding by with the red and blue dyes of their sateen regalia running into Pennsylvania Avenue. ¶ "If anybody asks you to discriminate because of politics you can tell them that the President of the United States...
...fanfare. Secretary of Commerce Roper was on hand to hope that the Federal exhibit would be ''of educational value to the country." Undersecretary of State Phillips assured California that out of Japan's commercial invasion of the U. S. would come "a cooperative solution." Postmaster General Farley struck off a big 3? commemorative stamp which was sure to get him into more philatelic hot water because the most prominent feature was the Ford building. And at 8 p. m. on opening day, President Roosevelt from Washington radioed that he hoped to get out to San Diego...