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...Farley and Mead took their seats in silence. But Herbert Lehman, when he heard that he was down with the precinct captains, hustled over to Democratic State Chairman Paul Fitzpatrick and informed him curtly that he considered himself affronted. Then, with Mrs. Lehman on his arm, he swept out. Chortled the Daily News next day: "Is it possible that the Democratic Party is split by even more dissensions, feuds, and hatreds than appear on the surface...
...pains. In an effort to by-pass the imponderables of intraparty protocol, the state committee had selected a dais long enough only to seat the guest of honor, three Cabinet members, four state party committeemen, and sundry divines. Seated on the indiscriminate floor were such party stalwarts as Jim Farley, ex-Senator James Mead, the party's 1946 candidate for governor, ex-Governor Herbert Lehman, 1946 candidate for senator...
...want independence from Britain. Some call him the Negro Gandhi, the jungle George Washington. His name is Nnamdi Azikiwe (rhymes with click away); he is the acacia thorn in the British lion's paw, the Bertie McCormick (see PRESS) of the Niger Delta, a coconut grove Jim Farley, and one of the few people in the world who got a high opinion of the U.S. from washing dishes in a Pittsburgh waffle foundry and having Pugilist Jackie Zivic poke thumbs in his eyes...
...other on the technology of the West. His activities toward this end take two very different forms: he writes erudite books on social philosophy and he operates a political machine that extends from Chiang Kai-shek's ear down to the wards and villages. If James Aloysius Farley in the New Deal's turbulent heyday had attempted to bring up to date the philosophy of John Locke, the U.S. would have a better precedent for understanding Chen Li-fu. (Chen's best-known book Life-subtitle, Vitaism-has had a sensational sale in China: 250,000 copies...
...March 17, 1947 issue of TIME, there appears under the heading of "Aviation" an article dealing with the Civil Aeronautics Board and its members. The article describes me as a "onetime Washington correspondent . . . Second Assistant Postmaster General in charge of air mail under Jim Farley (his specialty: political chores...