Word: farleyized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reappointed New York Secretary of State by Governor Lehman when he took office. Flynn is the Democratic boss of The Bronx. While serving as Governor Roosevelt's Secretary of State, Boss Flynn broke with Tammany, cannily made an alliance with Mr. Roosevelt's political right hand, Boss Farley. That alliance continued through the Chicago Convention, through the municipal elections last autumn when Farley and Flynn backed a "Recovery" ticket. They were beaten but defeat did not dampen their ambitions. Tammany was also licked and they saw a chance to seize the city's Democratic machine from Tammany...
...meet minor criticisms and last week, putting all his influence behind it again, had it brought up in the State Legislature. In the Lower House the bill failed, by 15 votes, to receive the necessary two-thirds majority, thanks to the "Noes" of 29 Democratic Assemblymen elected on the Farley-Flynn ticket...
...Herbert Lehman his blessing, saying in his hearty way that he was glad that Lehman would be at Albany so that he could call up from the White House and say "Hello, Herbert, this is Frank." Last week Governor Lehman let it be known that, unless Bosses Flynn and Farley saw the error of their ways, he would call up the White House and say in effect, "Hello, Frank, this is Herbert. Will you please call Mr. Farley to order." But, unexpectedly, the Washington-Albany telephone conversation was held between Governor and Postmaster General. The nature of their compromise...
...vacuum created by the Government's cancellation of all its airmail contracts flew the U. S. Army last week. Not for a decade had the military hauled the mails in its fighting planes. But now President Roosevelt had declared an "emergency"' as the result of Postmaster General Farley's sudden discovery of what he thought was "fraud and collusion" in the awarding of airmail contracts to private operators by his predecessor, Republican Walter Folger Brown...
...change has been made in the Varsity lineup. Donald V. McGranahan '35 sustained an injury recently, and his place will be taken by Ernest W. Chard '34. HARVARD BROWN Frankel 118-pound Robbins Stoddard 126-pound Falciglia Chard 135-pound Zooloomian Farley 145-pound Smith Reed 155-pound Staniels Emory 165-pound Impagliazzo Ames 175-pound Capasso Barrows Heavyweight Fraad