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Impy's victory was a stunning blow to Boss Flynn, who had engineered Mayor O'Dwyer's resignation in the ill-founded hope that a special city election might stir up a big enough straight Democratic vote to sweep the whole state. Big Jim Farley, out of favor since Flynn got control, had backed Impy. The new mayor, who promptly announced that he was going to go back to being a Democrat, swore that he would stay "unbossed and uncontrolled" and be "mayor for all the people...
...James Farley gained control of the Democratic Party from Boss Flynn...
Wall Street Sunday. Dewey, angrily defensive, said that nobody had offered to pay Hanley's debts (more than $30,000), and furthermore that there was nothing wrong if someone had. Referring to books by Democratic Bosses Flynn and Farley, Dewey made the point that when Franklin Roosevelt was asked to run for governor in 1928, "he owed a large sum of money to the Warm Springs Foundation,"* and that John J. Raskob promised to take care of it. "I just wish we had a Raskob in the Republican Party," said Dewey. Candidate Hanley betook himself down to Wall Street...
...James A. Farley, in Spain for his third visit since the war, had a 40-minute chat with Franco, failed to get official permission to enlarge his Barcelona Coca-Cola plant...
...Farley Granger plays the young truck driver who is nagged by poverty, a sense of guilt over the death of his pious mother and a confused resentment against his testy old parish priest and the Roman Catholic Church itself. Obsessed with the idea of making up for his mother's death, he determines that the church must pay for a sumptuous funeral. When the priest balks, the truck driver murders him. Then a younger, understanding priest (Dana Andrews) and a detective (Robert Keith) stand by until the killer gives himself away and collapses into repentance...