Word: farleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Irish arts of bringing tears to the eyes of his hearers when he told of Franklin D. Roosevelt's great heart. Last year he quietly stole a march on the professional politicians, got his brother, William Goucher, appointed U. S. Marshal for Rhode Island. Boss Farley was reported to have said that Democrat Dowling could have whatever he wanted. Month ago a dinner was given for him in Philadelphia, at which such speakers as Henry Morgenthau Sr., Frank Comerford Walker, executive director of the President's National Emergency Council, Mint Directress Nellie Tayloe Ross, Internal Revenue Commissioner...
Last week, after nearly three months of zero-zero political weather, the fog lifted and U. S. airlines got back the mail. Satisfied that the major companies had reorganized "in good faith," Postmaster General Farley awarded temporary contracts to low bidders on 15 of the 21 routes recently advertised by his Post Office Department...
Thus ended the greatest political setback the Administration has had so far and the greatest economic setback U. S. aviation has had since its beginning. With both Mr. Farley and the airlines apparently willing to let bygones be bygones, action was swiftly taken to relieve the Army of its onerous mail-carrying duties...
...contracts for less important routes, and contracts for three others were held up pending further investigation of the bidders' qualifications. Rejected were three bids, including that of Kohler Aviation Corp. for the Detroit-Milwaukee mail. Reason: vice president of Kohler Aviation Corp. is Richard W. Robbins, whom Mr. Farley ousted from the presidency of T.W.A. last month because he was present at the so-called "spoils conference...
Friends of James A. Farley told how, professing to know nothing about horses, the Postmaster General had won $35 on a 17 ½-to-1 shot on a horse named Jane Ellen. Explained he: "Ellen was my mother's name and I like...