Word: farleyized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large audience including Chief Justice Hughes sat in the inner court of the new $11,000,000 Department of Justice building and waited 15 minutes until President Roosevelt and Postmaster General Farley drove up. Then the building was dedicated. The President lent an attentive ear while Attorney General Cummings declared...
...delight a letter saying: "By electing Hon. Upton Sinclair, your popular Democratic Candidate for Governor, California will have a combination of leaders in Washington and Sacramento who can cooperate in the best interest of the people of the State and Nation." The signature was in green ink, "James A. Farley." At the bottom of the letter was a handwritten postscript, also in green ink: "Friends of the Administration in Washington will be gratified for all your efforts...
When ex-Socialist Sinclair and his EPIC began to slip, the Roosevelt machine started to back away from what threatened to be a bad defeat. The President made a great White House show of keeping his hands off California. Boss Farley, red as a beet with embarrassment, had nothing to say publicly. His anonymous explanation: the letter was a form letter sent out from Democratic National headquarters; an underling, unauthorized, had filled in the blanks with Mr. Sinclair's name; the realistic signature and personal postscript were the work of a rubber stamp...
...Angeles, Oct. 29--Apprised of a rumor today that Post-Master James A. Farley had drafted J. T. f. O'Connor, Comptroller of the Currency, to seek Upton Sinclair's withdrawal from the California gubernatorial race, Sinclair and he had no intention of quitting
Boarding a special train last week in Washington with Postmaster General Farley and Senator Glass, President Roosevelt swung down the Southern Ry.'s main line through central Virginia. Governor Peery was picked up as the special passed through Senator Glass's Lynchburg and by the time lunch was over the Presidential party was at Roanoke...