Word: farleyized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Postmaster General Farley dropped in at the White House for an earnest conference about the payless furloughs ordered for Post Office employes as an economy measure (TIME, March 19). For six weeks that order had not only vexed mail carriers but had brought down criticism on the Administration for cutting pay and laying off men while Industry was ordered to do the reverse. When Mr. Farley left the President he went back to his office and issued an announcement: "Improved business conditions have resulted in a substantial increase in postal revenues. . . . I feel justified in revoking, effective...
...come from the East, if at all. In the popular mind, the voice of the East is the voice of the Bankers, and the intensity of this feeling can be blamed on the policies and speeches to the New Dealers, and their attendant nuisance, Father Coughlin, Huey Long, Jim Farley and the rest...
...mystery story in the U. S. last week was the airmail situation. If anybody had an inkling of what would happen, he kept his peace. With some 40 conflicting bills in Congress. Postmaster General Farley intimated he would drop his temporary contract plan if permanent legislation is passed before April 20, when bids for temporary contracts are to be opened...
Died. Thomas Martin Farley, 45, one-time sheriff of New York County; of coronary embolism following an appendectomy; in Manhattan. In 1932 New York's Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt removed Sheriff Farley from office after the Hofstadter-Seabury investigation into New York City's municipal affairs revealed he had banked more than $300,000 above his salary. Sheriff Farley claimed he earned the money before taking office, kept it in a "tin box," deposited it now & then...
Neither would any contract be awarded to any company, "reorganized" or not, which had in its employ any of the 32 officials named by Mr. Farley as having attended Walter Folger Brown's "spoils" conference...