Word: farleyized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bissell, Sec. 38, Conf. Group I Memorial Hall Mr. Chamberlain, Sec. 9, 19, Conf. Group II Memorial Hall Mr. Coddington, Sec. 1, 10, Conf. Group IV Memorial Hall Mr. Cram, Sec. 42, 43, Conf. Group III Memorial Hall Mr. Edson, Sec. 12, 21, Conf. Group V Memorial Hall Mr. Farley, Sec. 41, Conf. Group VI Memorial Hall Mr. Gleason, Sec. 2, Conf. Group VII Memorial Hall Mr. Hoeing, Sec. 3, 22, Conf. Group VIII New Lect. Hall Mr. Jones, Sec. 23, 30, Conf. Group IX New Lect. Hall Mr. Lewis, Sec. 4 Conf. Group X New Lect. Hall Mr. Lynd...
...Randolph Hearst came out for Garner-for-President as the best way of stopping the nomination of Al Smith. Nobody was more surprised or pleased than Democrat Garner who, up to that time, had had no close ties, personal or political, with the California publisher. Then Boss James A. Farley made a deal at Chicago with the Hearst forces, and Garner was nominated for Vice President-"just the waterboy on the team," as he later called himself. Neither Publisher Hearst nor Nominee Roosevelt understood the calibre of their man. If Publisher Hearst expected John Garner to become a supporter...
Thirty-six Senatorial votes-three more than necessary-had long since been counted to sustain the veto and the margin of error in this calculation was conceded to be very small. Nevertheless, up to the Capitol, day after the House vote, marched Postmaster General Farley to lunch with Majority Leader Robinson, help hold the Administration lines. With him went ex-Representative Charles F. West, now Presidential contact-man, and in the cloak rooms of the Senate they and Whip Harrison proceeded to buttonhole doubtful members. Only one clear victory did they gain: New Mexico's Dennis Chavez, successor...
...Heard Huey Pierce Long shrill for action on his demand that it investigate James Aloysius Farley, gave him a stinging quietus...
...infected areas in the West. By last week, it had become a nationwide epidemic. Even Alfred Emanuel Smith, in his two-thirds-empty Empire State Building, received 1,000 letters. He waste-basketed all except one which contained a dime. President Roosevelt received 200, sent them to Postmaster General Farley, whose postal service in many a city seemed about to collapse under the weight of chain mail. The Post Office has ruled chain letters illegal but it was waggishly suggested that if the craze would only last, Jim Farley's postal receipts would eventually balance the U. S. budget...