Word: farleyized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...less preoccupied were well aware of what was going on. The Press had properly foreseen it as a coming test of the New Deal. Rhode Island's Senators, Democrat Peter Gerry and Republican Jesse Metcalf, had both suspended operations in Washington to go home and campaign. Postmaster General Farley, vacationing westward, had as usual wired the chief Democratic nominee ''best wishes" on a happy term in Washington. And even Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, who supposedly never plays politics, telegraphed support of the Democrats' chief issue-bond issues...
Franklin Roosevelt is deeply indebted to one great big Elk, James Aloysius Farley, for engineering his election to the Presidency. Last week he warmly welcomed to the White House a whole troupe of great big Elks headed by their Grand Exalted Ruler. But the Elks in the President's office were not of Elk Farley's herd...
...Chicago westbound on his vacation, Postmaster General Farley paused to say a kind word for the poor heat-bedeviled bachelor in the White House: "The President is in astonishingly good health but, like all the rest of us who have to endure the sodden heat of Washington, he is entitled to get peevish at times...
...midsummer in any ordinary year the President has said good-by to some six out of the ten members of his Cabinet as they and he part for long, needful vacations. Not until last week, however, did Franklin Roosevelt bid farewell to the first Cabinet vacationist, James Aloysius Farley. The prolonged session of Congress (see p. 10) provided no reason for detaining the Postmaster General. Having ordered the issuance of a purple 3? stamp commemorating the centennial of Michigan's admission to the Union in 1837,* he left on his desk only one important piece of unfinished business...
...provoked. At Secretary Ickes' throat were not merely Senators Tydings and Pat Harrison, patron of T. Webber Wilson, but the entire Senate afire with stored-up resentment at the Secretary's blunt, tactless refusal to play political ball. Likewise ranged against their fellow Cabinet officer were "Generals" Farley and Cummings. But the dogged little Secretary of the Interior stood undaunted against the field. He was priming to let fly another blast at Senator Tydings when he received a call from the White House. He emerged from a half-hour talk with President Roosevelt to announce that...