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Blitz Tactics. One non-caller was James Aloysius Farley. Genial Jim had made a White House call early in June, had indicated that the President had approved Jim Farley's man for Governor: mild, blameless Attorney General John J. Bennett Jr. By last week 51 of the 62 county organizations, said Farley, were committed to Bennett...
...future of the Republican Party was quite possibly at stake. Politicians watched each little development as soldiers watched the news from Libya. The cast of characters was of the highest political stature: Franklin Roosevelt, Wendell Willkie, Herbert Hoover, Thomas E. Dewey, Alf Landon, Charles L. McNary, James A. Farley, Herbert H. Lehman, Joe Martin, and on down to a host of others...
...Foxy Mr. Farley. They could point to sly, cunning Jim Farley, the political prophet, who carefully, genially went about New York State encouraging Republicans to run Tom Dewey. The very ice water in Jim Farley's veins warmed up at the thought of Dewey, who has no appeal to the interventionist majority of New York, no appeal to labor and liberal groups, and who is personally disliked by many of the hardheaded local bosses who are perforce supporting him. The thought of such a candidate, with weathervane views on all important matters, running against his own handpicked Democrat, John...
Franklin Roosevelt was reported to have had other ideas in the beginning. But ever since Governor Lehman said flatly that he could not possibly be drafted to run for a fifth term, Bennett has been the choice of Jim Farley and of a strong bloc of Democratic State leaders. Said Farley to newsmen after his White House lunch: "I am satisfied that there will be no difficulty. . . ." The inference: Mr. Roosevelt had given...
...colorless, likable, efficient. He has earned the loyalties of friends; smart and ambitious (for six years he has yearned to be Governor), he has visited every city and hamlet in the State during his five campaigns, probably knows more voters than anyone but his gregarious mentor, Jim Farley himself...