Word: farleyized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...district leader. By 1932 Hurja knew his way around Wall Street better. Among his acquaintances were such men as Bernard Mannes Baruch, Bernard ("Sell 'Em Ben") Smith and Frank C. Walker, Montana lawyer. Mr. Walker introduced Mr. Hurja and his sheets of figures to Democratic Chairman James Aloysius Farley. In June that year Mr. Hurja again served as delegate from Alaska at the national Democratic convention, continued on at Party headquarters as an aide to Mr. Farley in the statistical analysis of political trends...
Staff Work. This year the political firm of Roosevelt, Farley & Co. approaches the November election in a high state of hope. The head of the firm, despite sporadic booing, remains extraordinarily popular with customers who must be resold. His health holds up as well as his glowing confidence. His campaign will be simple: "Things are getting better & better. We planned it that way. Let's have four years more of Democratic Recovery." The Party debt has been cleared away and millions of voters living on government bounty will not be allowed to forget who feeds them. And, above...
...that Jim Farley can buy the nomination for President Roosevelt. . . . If you want to know which way the wind is blowing, don't ask a city man. Get the opinion of a Ruben...
...Patronage is a reward to those who have worked for party victory. It is also an assistance in building up the party machinery for the next election." Thus wrote Mr. Farley in July, 1933. Since that time the present administration has added over 234,000 employees to the direct full-time payroll of the Federal Government. Of this new personnel one in every 107 has been brought under the merit system; the other 106 are part of our new and greater spoils system...
...morale of the whole Federal personnel has been broken; no one knows at whom the finger of the genial and assiduous Mr. Farley will point next. The achievement of taking the civil service out of politics and professionalizing it, won laboriously over half a century, has during the last three years to a large extent been thrown away...