Word: farleyized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...adjoining those of Mayor O'Brien, began figuring ways & means to work the three new district leaders into the Hall. What did worry Boss Curry, and Fusionist La Guardia, too, was a trip which Secretary of State Edward J. Flynn made to Washington to see Postmaster General Farley, who is the Democracy's New York state as well as national chairman. Mr. Flynn is Democratic boss of The Bronx, represents the national party organization in New York City, has received most of the Federal patronage and dislikes Tammany. Unenthusiastic over Mayor O'Brien's showing...
...Postmaster General James Aloysius, whose brother Thomas L. is Sheriff of Rockland County, N. Y. Last week Rockland County's Sheriff Farley went down to the basement of his jail, turned off the heat in the adjacent County Building because the County Board had fired seven of his jail janitors...
Washington's result prompted Postmaster General Farley to repeat, with more emphasis than ever, his prediction that the 18th Amendment would be out of the Constitution by Jan. 1. Many a corporate taxpayer which was last week figuring out what it owed the Government and how much it would be saved by new levies on liquor was fervently hoping that "General" Farley was right...
Exuberant young Democrats from 30 states met last week in Kansas City under the auspices of the Democratic National Committee. After listening to speeches by Postmaster General Farley, Secretary of Commerce Roper, Missouri's Governor Park and Indiana's Governor McNutt, they revolted against prepared addresses by their elders, limited them to ten minutes each. Likewise they threw off the national committee's yoke to pick their own officers for the Young Democratic Clubs of America...
...General" Farley used about the same oblique strategy when week before he got Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins to accept American Federation of Labor's Edward Francis McGrady as her No. 1 assistant. When Miss Perkins was appointed, the A. F. of L. was outraged because she had no union card. Jim Farley tried to smooth the A. F. of L. down by putting Mr. McGrady into the sub-Cabinet. But Madam Secretary Perkins, no politician, balked, refused to have him or any other Farley candidate. Months passed during which she met Mr. McGrady repeatedly at NRA headquarters where...