Word: farleys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City, a shrewd local boss (not without aspersions on his political reputation); Governor Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia, industrious, patrician; Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming, onetime (1025-27) Governor; onetime (1907-21) U. S. Representative Scott Ferris of Oklahoma, farmers' friend; Florence Gardiner Farley of Kansas, famed suffragette...
...year-old Jack Linder who weighed 341 pounds. He was the most honored guest at the garden party given by Thomas M. Farley, political leader of the Fourteenth Assembly District. Mr. Farley's district is full of Jewish, Italian and Irish constituents. All of these have plenty of children and plenty were at Mr. Farley's party last week. As demure and vagrant as fluffy rabbits, the little girls in their white dresses went creeping about the lawns giving vent to small cries. The stags at the party chased them from time to time: there was a regrettable...
This precipitated a scramble so dreadful that it is impossible properly to describe it. Generous Mr. Farley had distributed 15,000 quarts of ice cream, 10,000 quarts of milk and five tons of crackers...
Most political district leaders give such parties but staunch Tammany Tom Farley's are perhaps the most celebrated in Manhattan. The pre-eminent success of this particular Farley Fête, which produced more congratulatory editorials than Mr. Farley's fierce but successful fight to attain the leadership of his district, could be attributed largely to the admirable Linder. Jealous Republicans, who can give no such parties in Manhattan, scoffingly suggested that the fat boy would have been kept away from the party for fear of frightening the other guests, had it not been for the fact that...
Hale--Korn, Wexler v. Magruder--Collins, Farley...