Word: farleyized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: It should interest you to know that a number of Dallas people are somewhat peeved that TIME went off on a tangent, or so it seems to them, in its issue of Oct. 30. They feel that all the power and the glory of Jim Farley's Texas visit should not have gone to Amon G. Carter, who played a part but not the whole show...
...estate of Ralph W. Morrison 50 miles from the Mexican border. It was here that Will Rogers put on a real rope-twirling show:, taking a glass out of Amon Carter's hand and throwing Airman Vidal and Treasury-man Roberts, two former football stars. Here also Jim Farley rode a horse for the first time, he said, in his life, getting on with some difficulty while a secretary held his watch. Will Rogers rode the same horse, Edna May's King, retired undefeated champion stud of the world, a horse that Morrison says he paid...
...Arlington Downs the Fergusons were the guests of the Waggoners and were invited to occupy their box, just as was Jim Farley. At a luncheon before the races, Mrs. Ferguson made a charming and appropriate little speech to the effect that everybody had come to see the races and not to hear speeches and what were they waiting...
Secretary Farley, who entered the lists for McKee in such a way as to involve President Roosevelt, is finding his role very difficult as the waves recede on either side. First, it will be remembered, Mr. Curry tricked him into a pledge to support the regular Democratic candidate Dr. O'Brien. The President became a little restless under this stratagem, but when Mr. LaGuardia really let loose at McKee and Farley, he felt that a little easing was in order. Accordingly, Mr. Farley has been instructed to announce that his support of McKee is a personal fealty which does...
...Fergusons were placed on Postmaster General Farley's right at the Dallas banquet next night, so Amon Carter sat at the press table. The itinerant politicians went on to San Antonio, Houston, Uvalde (the Garner home town), saw a rodeo on a border ranch, then headed back to Washington. That, thought some of Amon Carter's friends, was where Amon Carter wished he were going, on official business...