Word: farleyized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deserving Democrat. Senator Harrison had a job-seeking friend named T. (for Thomas) Webber Wilson of Mississippi who in 1928 gave up a seat in the House to run for the Senate and lost. Lest his friend run for the Senate in 1936, Senator Harrison got Postmaster General Farley to induce Attorney General Cummings to appoint Mr. Wilson a judge in the Virgin Islands...
...Interior gave out The Nation article as an official press release, an hour later sent messenger boys around trying to retrieve it. Washington correspondents were told it had all been a mistake. But the fat was on the fire, because not only Judge Wilson but Messrs. Harrison, Cummings and Farley were denounced in the article. Stuart Godwin, the Interior's pressagent, had a toothache and could not see the Press. Secretary Ickes returned from Manhattan to find matters in a mess and Senator Harrison, mad clean through, hot-footing to the White House. Hastily Mr. Ickes announced...
...quite a talk with a sub-contractor who gave a little dope on Jim Farley, organized labor and the NRA the other day. This honest man had it right in his simple way. He said that the logical unions were entirely controlled by a small cabal of thieves who blackmailed everybody, including their own members. This isn't five star final material, I know but it simply substantiates an old prejudice of mine to the effect that collective bargaining is all right if honest men are doing the bargaining, but crooked organized labor is a menace to the honest laborer...
...nothing else, the Old Deal provided the New Deal with a magnificent set of government buildings in Washington. Last June Postmaster General Farley moved into his monumental new Post Office Building on Pennsylvania Avenue and found it good. Last October Attorney General Cummings moved into his monumental new Department of Justice Building on Pennsylvania Avenue and also found it good. This month Madam Secretary Perkins was to move into her monumental new Labor Department Building on Constitution Avenue. By last week, however, moving day had been postponed because the first woman in a President's Cabinet had just inspected...
...Conf. Group I Memorial Hall Mr. Chamberlain, Sec. B, 9, 19 Conf. Group II Memorial Hall Mr. Cram, Sec. C. Conf. Group III Memorial Hall Mr. Coddington, Sec. D, 1, 10, Conf. Group IV Memorial Hall Mr. Edson, Sec. E, 12, 21 Conf. Group V Memorial Hall Mr. Farley, Sec. F, 41, Conf. Group VI Memorial Hall Mr. Gleason, Sec. G, 2, Conf. Group VII Memorial Hall Mr. Hoeing, Sec. H, 3, 22, Conf. Group VIII New Lect. Hall Mr. Jones, Sec. I, 23, 30, Conf. Group IX New Lect. Hall Mr. Lewis, Sec. J, 4, Conf. Group...