Word: farleyized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Democrats. As the party in power, Democrats debouched upon the nation from Washington. To crucial Pennsylvania-for which Harry Hopkins last fortnight authorized 10,000 new WPA jobs-went Postmaster General Farley to warn a $100-a-plate dinner in Philadelphia that nothing could so comfort Republicans as to win back Pennsylvania, which they lost four years ago. Result in funds raised...
...Jersey went Secretary of War Woodring. To Council Bluffs, Iowa, having already visited Kansas, Texas, and Illinois, went Secretary of Agriculture Wallace to make another of a series of heartfelt speeches in defense of AAA. To Kansas went Senate Majority Leader Barkley. To Pennsylvania after Mr. Farley went House Majority Leader Rayburn. But of all the stump-speaking Democrats, loudest and longest was the Secretary of the Interior...
...carefully prepared and prereleased to the press-the editing of Janizaries Corcoran & Cohen was unmistakable. They stamped Mr. Ickes as Possibility No. 1 in the Janizariat's mind for a 1940 Presidential candidate acceptable to Mr. Roosevelt, a candidate to be built up before Democratic National Chairman Jim Farley and his alliance of local bosses can converge on someone else, such as Missouri's Senator Bennett Clark.* "I think President Roosevelt would carry the United States if he ran again, and he might have to run," declared Mr. Ickes...
...quietly removed as New Mexico's WPAdministrator; an Internal Revenue man; the head of the State Drivers License Bureau; the wife and brother of Albuquerque's postmaster; the police chief of Las Vegas and his brother; Joe Martinez, secretary to Senator Chavez, the New Dealer whom Jim Farley got appointed after Senator Bronson Cutting was killed in an air crash. Swart, Spanish-blooded poor-but-proud Senator Dennis Chavez, who got credit for most of the Federal funds obtained for New Mexico, also beheld four of his close relatives indicted: his son-in-law, Assistant U. S. Attorney...
There are about 177,000 Negro votes in Pennsylvania, enough in Jim Farley's estimation to be called a decisive factor in the Democrats' capture of the State two years ago. So it was of major interest when important Democratic Publisher Vann, who pictures himself as the guiding mind for most of those votes, last week exhorted all Pennsylvania Negroes to vote for Judge James for Governor and ignore the rest of both tickets...