Word: farleyized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prosecutor Samuel Seabury of the Legislative inquiry into New York City scandals had charged that Big Tom Farley, since becoming Sheriff of New York County two years ago, had withheld $15,000 in interest on litigant funds left in his trust, had surrounded himself with incompetents and, most important of all, was unable to account for a personal fortune of $357,000. Governor Roosevelt was trying to sift these matters and to decide whether he should remove Sheriff Farley from office. High above the heads of the Tammany deathwatch, whose votes might mean the Governor's nomination and election...
...York's Chief Magistrate, sat crippled, smiling Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Before him stood a great barrel of a man with a soup-bowl haircut and cutaway, who looked like a slightly modernized political cartoon by the late Thomas Nast. He was Thomas M. ("Big Tom") Farley...
...Sheriff Farley entitled to the interest on litigants' funds? The Sheriff's counsel thought so, deviously led the Governor back to the days of Merrie England when "the Shire-Reeve was an important officer of the King." Since the Shire-Reeve was acting for the King, it was maintained, he was not a trustee but a debtor. The implication was that Shire-Reeve Farley was responsible for returning to the litigant only the original principal. This solution, said counsel, had satisfied all New York County Sheriffs in the past, including Alfred Emanuel Smith...
Tammany Hall, in offering two candidates for the position of sheriff lately held by Thomas A. Farley seems more anxious than usual to get control of an office and less confident of doing so. The last incumbent, who was asked to resign as a result of the Seabury investigation, was a son of the Tiger and by the appearance of his bank account, no idle son. Whom Roosevelt will choose to succeed him is, therefore, a matter of grave concern...
Governor Roosevelt ordered Sheriff Farley to reply to these charges. With the Farley answer still secret, Inquisitor Seabury last week made a flying trip to Albany to press home his charges in person...