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...PRESIDENCY Mr. Farley Announces...
...gave the U. S. this shadowy shock was big Jim Farley. One night the little bells of the nation's news-tickers began to tinkle; clacking, wiry fingers tapped out under glass: "To clear up any misunderstanding, let me say that my name will be presented to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, and that's that...
Tall, pink-faced Postmaster General Farley has been doggedly loyal to Franklin Roosevelt ever since pre-Albany days. He has never forgotten that without Franklin Roosevelt's good will he might yet be a saloonkeeper's son who was doing fairly well as a gypsum salesman. As the President's whipping-boy throughout the early New Deal years, Mr. Farley endured much, worked hard, remained financially in debt until he sold his memoirs to the American Magazine for $65,000.* His dream was simple and sublime: to succeed Mr. Roosevelt as President...
Everybody knew what Jim Farley thought of The Boss. But what Mr. Roosevelt thought of Big Jim all these years was clear to everybody but Jim. That began to clear up too one day last spring, when Big Jim. moving with the nervous alertness of a hurrying cat, strode into the White House to report to Mr. Roosevelt. Just back from a 13-State, 7,500-mile trip, surveying Democratic fences, Jim Farley had a lot to tell. One thing: nomination for Term III would be easy, election might be tough...
Though Mr. Farley grinned a flashbulb grin as he left the White House, he left behind a chilly Administration silence. Something had changed in the relationship of Handyman Farley and Boss Roosevelt. Thereafter Jim Farley's visits to the White House were infrequent. Last July he went to Hyde Park for a long afternoon's chat with his boss. No one knew exactly what was said, but again something had changed...