Word: farleyized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...members of the Norfolk (Va.) Philatelic Society met, last fortnight, in a blaze of indignation. Beneath their very noses a local dealer was flaunting a sheet of 200 Mother's Day stamps, unperforated, ungummed, and autographed by James Aloysius Farley. Rumor was that the dealer had insured his $6 worth of stamps for $20,000. The philatelists drafted a hot letter accusing the Postmaster General of slipping his friends sheets of unperforated commemorative stamps which promptly "assumed speculative value 10,000 times greater than their original value." Then they dispatched the letter to a famed fellow stamp-collector...
Last week President Roosevelt passed it along to a highly embarrassed Postmaster General. As best he could, Mr. Farley explained that he had autographed five sheets of Mother's Day stamps, unperforated because his pen caught in the perforations. Four of the sheets he presented to President & Mrs. Roosevelt, Secretary Ickes, Louis McHenry Howe. The fifth he sent to a friend in Norfolk. "That," said he, "was probably a mistake...
...calculated to win him friends in Washington. Not content with the stock Republican charge that Federal relief and PWA funds were generally being used for patronage purposes, he named names, cited cases. Hard and sharp were his jabs at President Roosevelt's good friends Herbert Lehman, James A. Farley and Basil O'Connor (Mr. Roosevelt's onetime law partner). Finally he declared the whole New Deal fundamentally unworkable. After losing the election to Governor Lehman, Mr. Moses picked up where he had left off in his $10,000-a-year job as New York City Park Commissioner...
...Washington there was incredible gossip to the effect that behind the St. Louis indictments lay an Administration desire to oust Republican Will Hays as tsar of the industry and install a Democrat, possibly Postmaster General Farley...