Word: farleyized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bureaucracy stifles initiative but last week Postmaster General Farley had reason to be proud of one enterprising jobholder, Postmaster Joseph F. Gallagher of Philadelphia, who announced...
...gown and an aloof expression, with a white dog at her feet. The work of 65-year-old Howard Chandler Christy, it has the characteristics that have made him the most commercially successful U. S. artist, the painter of such celebrities as Mussolini, William Randolph Hearst, James Farley, Chief Justice Hughes, Vice President Garner...
Senator Gillette, backed by the State machine of his colleague Senator Clyde Herring and Governor Nelson G. Kraschel, backed also by Catholics, the A.F of L. and reputedly by Boss Jim Farley, stormed up & down the State denouncing "this gang of political termites . . . boring from within . . . planning on taking over, if possible, the control of the Democratic party organization in 1940." Along with' Harry Hopkins he damned Tommy Corcoran, Congressman Maury Maverick of Texas, Homer Martin of the C.I.O. and Communist Earl Browder as other non-lowans who had unrighteously butted in by endorsing Mr. Wearin. He referred...
...State payroll but 60,000 on WPA. Candidate Petersen immediately took Mr. Christgau's part. So did Republican State Chairman W. M. Parker. So did three Democratic candidates for Governor, including U. S. District Attorney Victor Anderson, who had entered the race at the behest of James A. Farley and whose grumbling supporters could only conclude from the Christgau charges that Democrats Farley and Hopkins were working at cross purposes...
Birthdays. The Dionne Quintuplets: their fourth; in Callander, Ont. Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley: his 50th; in Manhattan. Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Nathan Cardozo: his 68th; in Port Chester, N. Y. Queen Mary: her 71st; in London...