Word: farleyized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...food came & went, small Mr. Raskob thoughtfully eyed large Mr. Farley across the table. Four years ago Mr. Raskob had been where Mr. Farley was now, just rounding out a campaign to elect a Democratic President. In honest expectation of a Brown Derby victory Chairman Raskob had piled up a huge party deficit. After defeat he had refused to let his machine go to rusty scrap as was the Democratic custom between elections. Basing his organization at Washington, financing it largely out of his own pocket, he and Jouett Shouse had opened a drumfire on the Republicans which helped...
...President, took over the national chairmanship, scrapped the fine Raskob machine and set his own running as the official party organization. These events had left Mr. Raskob not bitter-John Raskob is a sportsman -but chagrinned, dismayed, hurt. Since June he had kept his distance from Chairman Farley and the Roosevelt bandwagon...
Money & More. When the meal was almost over and during a lull in Jim Farley's hearty storytelling, Mr. Raskob reached in his pocket and pulled out an oblong piece of paper. This he passed to the national chairman whose pale blue eyes blinked in happy surprise as they fell upon it. It was a check for $25,000-Mr. Raskob's personal contribution to the campaign of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Chairman Farley wrung Mr. Raskob's hand, gushed his gratitude. The party certainly needed the money but the Raskob check meant more than money. It signified...
...Aside from his own self-confidence Chairman Farley found plenty to encourage him in the signs of the times last week. In Wall Street, where his candidate was unpopular, betting odds favored Roosevelt's election 2½-to-1. All except the most biased Republican newshawks touring the country reported evidences of a strong anti-Hoover tide still running. Even so ardent a claimer as Robert Lucas, ''brains" of the G. O. P. headquarters at Chicago, last week reported to President Hoover that only 270 electoral votes-a majority of four-were in sight for his reelection...
Polls & Partisans. Dry fodder to Republicans, but to Jim Farley and the Democratic donkey a feast, were the presidential straw votes conducted by The Literary Digest and the Hearst-papers. Every four years since 1920 the Digest's poll has successfully predicted the outcome with never more than a 5% error in the total vote. Each time the victorious G. O. P. accepted the poll at full value, hailed it as accurate, authoritative. This year the Digest's canvass of some 20 million citizens points strongly to a Democratic sweep. Last week the vote stood...