Word: farleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...because Secretary of State Hull was away at the London Economic Conference and universities rarely bestow their kudos in absentia. So Syracuse led off by making Secretary of the Treasury Woodin a Doctor of Music. Secretary of War Dern got an LL. D. from Pennsylvania Military College. Postmaster General Farley became, by grace of the University of the South, a Doctor of Civil Law. Washington & Jefferson gave Secretary of the Interior Ickes an LL. D., as did Lake Forest. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace received an LL. D. from Drake. National University (Washington, D. C.) bestowed an LL. D. on Secretary...
...months quidnuncs have been privately intimating that the Roosevelt Administration was headed into a big patronage scandal. Before Secretary Morgenthau reported to the President last week he called to Washington Internal Revenue Collector Abbott, who also happens to be Demo-cratic National Committeeman from Michigan. Last August National Chairman Farley tucked Committeeman Abbott away into the comfortable berth of an Internal Revenue collectorship. Good Mixer Abbott was able to pull many a patronage wire through Boss Farley, to the dismay of Michigan Congressmen. They rejoiced, if they did not assist, when the Detroit Free Press began to publish accusations against...
Because Postmaster General Farley decreed that no airline holding a mail contract may have a manufacturing affiliate, United Aircraft & Transport Corp., most potent ($30,000,000) U. S. aviation holding company, last week announced plans to split three ways. To take over the assets & liabilities of its various operating and manufacturing subsidiaries three new, independent corporations will be formed -one transport company, one eastern equipment company, one western equipment company. This reorganization was pledged by United when it bid for mail contracts last month. In that scramble it was the most successful competing company, recapturing...
...which brought in contributions from all over the U. S. This year more than 10,000 copies were sold at 50? each. Profits go toward defraying the Bond Club's heavy Field Day expenses. In last week's issue were such stories as: VOIDS RAILROAD MAIL CONTRACTS Farley Kills Agreements on Suspicion of Deals with Franklin in 1776 . . . The sweeping cancellation, Mr. Farley told reporters, was the result of a recent Senate investigation which indicated the possibility of irregularities in the original contracts awarded by ex-Postmaster General Benjamin Franklin to stage-coach drivers and dispatch riders...
Postmaster General Farley as his party's national boss professed to be amazed that anyone could suppose the Democracy was interested in the results of a Republican primary. "I do not regard the defeat of Governor Pinchot," said he, "as a New Deal test...