Word: farleyized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next morning Mr. Farley detrained at Kansas City, got a shave, went to 9 o'clock mass, attended a breakfast of 70 potent Democrats. "Many people won't believe me," he told them, "but this trip is not connected with politics in any way." Thereafter he attended a double-header baseball game, a national convention dinner given by his brother Elks, a theatre. Next morning he kissed a few babies, made a 20-minute rush inspection of the post office, shook hands with all employes, demanded "How are you, young fellow?" or "Are they treating you all right...
Campaign Problems. The days that James Aloysius Farley spent breakfasting, conferring, speaking, shaking hands in Indianapolis, Springfield, Kansas City, Santa Fe and Albuquerque, were repeated with only minor variations at Williams, Ariz., at Los Angeles, San Jose, San Francisco, Sacramento. Reno. At the last place he thumped for the Federal deposit guaranty law, declared: "I have heard this and that Senator given the credit for this legislation, but I want to claim it here and now for the Democratic Party, lock, steel and barrel. The guaranty of bank deposits was a very plain and very definite pledge of the Democratic...
...program was gruelling but the complexities of New Deal politics were even more trying. "This is no ordinary Congressional campaign," Mr. Farley told audiences, as he went about his extraordinary job of compromising between loyalty to party and loyalty to the New Deal...
...President may, but a Postmaster General may not, disjoint the noses of too many local party followers. On his way West Mr. Farley ingenuously admitted that he would "say a few kind words for Hiram," but would deliberately avoid Wisconsin, leaving that State to "The Boss...
...campaigning for Roosevelt in 1932 and then told his Democratic friends: "I know that a lot of people want to know what attitude will be taken on local politics in this State. That is a matter for you to decide." The bitterness of Cuttingites at the failure of Boss Farley to endorse the Senator's candidacy was summed up by the Albuquerque Tribune: "The bold and brutal truth is that among politicians there is no sense of justice or of gratitude...