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...Republican stronghold into the greatest Democratic fortress north of the Mason-Dixon line. Splitting with Tammany in 1925, he backed the late Jimmy Walker for mayor, later became the leading New Dealer among Democratic city bosses ("I'm for anything Roosevelt is for"). When National Committee Chairman Jim Farley resigned in 1940 in protest against the third term, Ed Flynn reluctantly took over for almost three years, was rewarded with trips to Yalta, Moscow and the Vatican as a wartime presidential envoy. In 1947 he wrote a candid analysis of his political methods, You're the Boss...
...better judgment," he told reporters. "I'm back here from the Bohemian Grove [a private camp in California], where I was having a good time." To assist Hoover on' the twelve-man commission, the President named an erstwhile political foe of the ex-President: James A. Farley. Other commissioners: Attorney General Brownell, Defense Mobilization Director Arthur Flemming...
Shirley Barger, Helen Scott Bennett, Dorothea Bourne, Amelia Riddick Brent, Ruth Brine, Marjorie Burns, Peggy Bushong, Nancy McD. Chase, Bertha Cordeiro! Lilian Davidson, Estelle Dembeck, Lois Dickert, Anne Dirkes, Kathleen Donahue, Joan Dye, Kathryn Egan, Marta Erdman, Lenora Ersner, Jane Farley, Marcelle Farrington, Dorothy Ferenbaugh, Blanche Finn, Rosemary L. Frank, Mary Elizabeth Fremd, Judith Friedberg, Marcia Gauger, Marie Kathryn Gibbons, Jean Gutheim, Dorothy Slavin Haysteafl, Harriet Heck, Robin Hinsdale, Bonnie Claire Howells, Vera Kovarsky, E. Eleanore Larsen, Sylvia Crane Myers, Helen Newlin, Amelia North, Mary Baylor Reinhart, Margaret Rorison, Deirdre Mead Ryan, Jane Darby Scholl, Ruth Silva, M. Ava Smith...
Personality: A big (6 ft. 2 in., 229 Ibs.), bald, hearty, handshaking, back-thumping man with a remarkable memory for names and numbers, he is considered the Republicans' Jim Farley. His "I like everybody" philosophy was tested in 1950 when New York's Senator Herbert Lehman., campaigning for reelection, bitterly attacked him. Hall, who was running for re-election to the House, made no reply. A week later Lehman apologized, said he really meant New York's Representative Edwin A. Hall (Binghamton). Leonard Wood Hall broke his silence, said he knew all along that Lehman, "an honorable...
Small Town Girl (MGM) is a Technicolored trifle about a playboy (Farley Granger) who is jailed for speeding through a small town. By Hollywood justice, he finds himself not only in the clutches of the law but also in the arms of the judge's pretty daughter (Jane Powell). She smuggles fried chicken and mince pie into his cell, regales him by singing Small Towns Are Smile Towns, and sneaks him out of jail for a night on New York town. This does not please the playboy's fiancee, Dancing Star Ann Miller. By the fadeout the playboy...