Word: farleyized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Also on tour last week was Postmaster General Farley, but his month's swing to the Pacific and back was anything but a holiday. Nominally the PMG was inspecting post offices. Actually he was working day & night on that lowliest of labors, mending political fences, shaking hands with every loose stone, patting it back firmly into place...
...ready-mixed concrete company of Democratic Boss Tom Pendergast of Kansas City, Mo. Later he worked for MGM pictures and Radio Corp. of America. During the 1932 campaign, Mr. Pettey managed the radio work for the Democratic National Committee. When the Democrats came into power grateful Chairman Farley made him secretary to the Radio Commission. In addition, the Herald Tribune reported, with a letter from "General" Farley to prove it, Secretary Pettey, while drawing Federal pay, retained his job as No. 1 radio arranger for the Democratic Party and sole booking agent for Democratic speakers...
...proud pleasures were Postmaster General Farley's last week. One morning he drove to his office on Pennsylvania Avenue near 12th Street. Instead of stopping as usual at the old Post Office Department Building, that blackened square of granite with cone-capped towers, one of the finest examples of Benjamin Harrison architecture in Washington, his car kept on across 12th Street and came to a stop before a new building with classic white marble columns. "General" Farley was moving into the new $8,500,000 home of his Department. A fair home it was, not so ostentatious...
...came Mrs. Farley, back from Italy with her friend Mrs. Salvatore A. Cotillo, large, honey-haired wife of a good Demo-cratic justice of New York's Supreme...
Court, who last year hoped in vain that Mr. Farley could induce President Roose velt to make him Ambassador to Italy. Mrs. Farley told her beaming husband of her triumphs : "Did we see Mussolini? Say, we saw everything. Yes, Mussolini, of course. A most charming man. He jumped up when we were ushered into his suite, rushed over and took our hands. The first thing he said was. 'Where are your husbands? Are you girls traveling alone?' "At the horse show in Rome we sat in the same box with the King. He seemed to be a very...