Word: farleyized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from his great red mansion in Albany went the Governor to receive his party reward for faithful service. Up from his new Fifth Avenue apartment in Manhattan went Alfred E. Smith to nominate his old friend. Up from his proud new offices in Washington went Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley...
...side-room bar of the banner-decked Broadway Auditorium buzzing. The bald dome of the President's best Democrat, the old brown derby of his worst Democrat, and the monk-fringed pate of their mutual friend had come together, nodding close in amiable conference. That night in Boss Farley's headquarters at the Hotel Statler Al Smith chewed his cigar from 9 to 1 o'clock while New Deal orders were given. Next day, for the first time in many a month, the three sat together on a convention platform while Al Smith nominated Herbert Lehman...
...General"' Farley is not only chairman of the Democratic National Committee but also of the Democratic State Committee in New York. To President Roosevelt this seems like too many political jobs for his P. M. G. Last winter when the President was gently shaking government officials out of their party jobs, Jim Farley promised to relinquish his State post. Last week he blandly announced: ". . . Governor Lehman indicated a desire that I stay as chairman, and I am happy to do so, and do what I can to aid the party's victory this fall...
Early this year in Washington, Emil Hurja and Theodore Huntley began to bet. Mr. Hurja, a prime political dopester in his own right, is Postmaster General Farley's second-in-command at Democratic National headquarters. "Ted" Huntley, a pompous little ex-Washington correspondent with an amazing bass voice, is the arch-Republican secretary of Pennsylvania's arch-Republican Senator David Aiken Reed...
James Aloysius Farley, Postmaster General, who predicted that the U. S. airmail system would become self-supporting within three or four years. Until that time, said Mr. Farley, in nearly the exact words of onetime Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown, it would be the Post Office Department's policy to continue financial assistance to mail-carrying transport lines. As to new airlines, the Department's position was that it was economically unsound to finance them in competition "with the lines we are trying to build...