Word: farleyized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bowden, D. W. Brown, Thornion Brown, H. S. Bullard, H. R. Byers, R. S. Chafee, R. H. Clarke, John Clement, B. H. Cohen, M. I. Cohen, C. R. Comstock, R. H. Cook, B. D. Davis, W. A. Dickson, J. D. Dorr, R. W. Drury, J. N. Edson, L. C. Farley, W. A. Francis, G. S. Franklin, A. H. Fuller, J. A. Garber, J. E. Gardner, P. E. Geier, R. W. Gilder, Justin Glickson, R. S. Goodyear, Davies Gratwick, S. S. Greeley, J. M. Hartwell, C. A. Haskins, P. W. Hengerer, W. F. Hickey, I. T. Holden, P. G. Hunziker...
...political rather than socialite cast. Governors of six states-Kentucky, Illinois, Ohio, Virginia, West Virginia, Indiana- were at the track. James Roosevelt was staying with Mrs. Alvin T. Hert. Republican National Committeewoman from Kentucky. From New York came Bernard Baruch, Forbes Morgan, onetime Sheriff Tom Farley. Boss John F. Curry, who made his own bets. Boss John McCooey who tried to pick a "daily double." From Washington came Assistant Secretary of War Harry Woodring, Senator Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia. Postmaster General James A. Farley who called the gathering "the flower of Democracy," presented the gold trophy to Col. Bradley...
...Assistant Secretary of State. Through his ear is the shortest and swiftest route to the heart of the White House. He does not make up the President's mind for him but he supplies the raw material on which that mind is made up. What Postmaster General Farley & Col. Howe are to President Roosevelt in the realm of practical politics Dr. Moley is to him in the realm of political practice. Raymond Moley has come far by his own wits since his humble birth at Berea, Ohio, outside Cleveland. His grandfather, Hippolyte Moley, was a Frenchman who went...
...Moley, jealous of his close association with the President, is no radical. He believes in economic planning-just as Herbert Hoover did before the election. He believes in private property rights and due process of law no less firmly than does Chief Justice Hughes. For practical politicians like "Jim" Farley and "Joe" Robinson he has the greatest admiration. He has even expressed this arch-Hamiltonian view: "We would have better government if less people voted. There is no such thing as faith in numbers. The more numbers you have, the more foolish is the result." Friends know...
Last fortnight a schoolboy in Fond du Lac, Wis. wrote to Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley, who chews gum: "What part has gum played in your success?" Gumchewer Farley wrote back, "I don't know whether gum played any part in my success, but it was not a retarding factor." Last week the boy crowed back, "My assistant principal said chewing gum was a bad habit, that no gumchewer could succeed. I read your letter in the class, and it got a lot of applause...