Word: farleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...permitted to speak before his execution. He recalled his lifelong services in the Hall (in return for which, for 23 years, he never held a city sinecure which paid less than $6,000, while he developed a profitable insurance brokerage business on the side). He blamed James Aloysius Farley with fomenting revolt against him. "Now, I don't want to make any accusation against President Roosevelt," he continued, "but he tried to break Tammany Hall 20 years ago and he is trying...
Next day, just before noon, the precious package was carried downstairs to the large, unlovely office of the Superintendent of Airmail. There, tense and expectant, some 200 airline executives, newshawks and Government officials jammed around a long table. At the head sat baldish Postmaster General Farley slightly ill-at-ease, surrounded by a pack of assistants. Spectators mounted chairs and desks to see and hear better...
Promptly at noon a postal official slit open the first bid and read it aloud. Others followed, to the scratch of an accountant's pen writing down their contents. Most of the old-line companies blossomed out with a minor change in name-part of the Farley program for corporate reorganization. Eastern Air Transport became Eastern Air Lines. Transcontinental & Western Air put three new periods into its abbreviated title. American Airways switched to American Air Lines. Only Western Air Express made a major change by becoming General Air Lines. Because its previous contracts were held under the names...
...altogether new was the character of bids offered by these oldtime operators for mail contracts. The crowd broke into a long whistle of surprise when bids of 17½? and 19? per airplane mile were read off for routes on which "General" Farley had specified a maximum of 45?. The companies, it seemed, were ready to cut their throats and bleed to financial death rather than die of slow starvation without any airmail contracts...
...Farley wants to keep his hands on the reins of the Democratic Party machine he must learn to exercise less initiative and to take his cues from others closer to the White House. His presence in the past few months has proved more than once embarrassing to the administration, and may be unnecessary in the next campaign when Franklin D. Roosevelt appeals again to the electorate for support of his policies...