Word: farleyized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...duty of the Legislative Committee and its counsel, if they believe they have sufficient cause, to present evidence to the proper authorities without waiting to make formal report to next year's Legislature. You cannot get away from that obvious public duty. In the case of Sheriff Farley,* Judge Seabury asked the Legislative Committee to present the evidence to the Governor. The Committee refused. Judge Seabury sent it himself; I acted. If the evidence in any case now before the Legislative Committee, in their judgment or that of their counsel, warrants, it is time for the Legislative Committee...
...February, when Governor Roosevelt ousted Sheriff Thomas M. Farley of New York County for failing to explain satisfactorily the sources of his fat income, the Governor issued a precedent-making announcement: "It is time, I believe, that the standard of the conduct of public officers be put on a plane of personal as well as official honesty and that, therefore, there is a positive duty on the part of the public official to explain matters which arise on an inquiry which involves the expenditure or the depositing of large sums of money. . . . One of their deep obligations is to recognize...
...Chapman '35, L. A. Cook '34, T. L. Dammann '35, A. B. Deardon '34, G. R. Divens '35, Jarvis Farley '32, D. A. Fuss '32, A. B. Gardner '33, C. T. Hall '34, G. M. Hazelton '33, H. E. Holm '35, Frederick Ireland '33, G. N. Johnson '34, J. R. Keim '34, W. H. Kerr '34, R. W. Kuhl...
...nomination, and for election if he is nominated. All that can safely be said is that on the basis of his past record he will bend both ways in an arduous effort to please both the reformers and Tammany, as he did when, after reluctantly firing Sheriff Farley, he proceeded to appoint a Tammany man as his successor. On that occasion the reformer set out to take Tammany for a ride, but they came back from the ride with the reformer inside, and the smile on the face of the Tiger...
Kent-Stroke, Livingstone; 7, Kickok; 6, Hammond; 5, Field; 4, Johnson; 3, Jackson; 2, Farley; Bow, Miles; Cox, Baetjer...