Word: farleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jaunty Jim Farley, whose genial optimism and bulky presence were so much in evidence during the last campaign was labeled recently by Mr. A. A. Berle, young intellectual and late member of the Brain Trust, as "not a particularly brilliant politician." Further he stated that Mr. Roosevelt was for the most part his own manager in the presidential campaign and that had Mr. Farley "Gone fishing for flounders" the outcome would have been the same...
...seemed fair enough to change the game's rules, not fair to knock out the obedient players. The wage of connivance, retorted the Administration, is punishment. By last week the rules of the game as it is to be played under President Roosevelt's Postmaster General Farley were not finally settled, but temporary rules were ready and an hour was at hand when the industry's altered countenance would be seen. New Rules. On orders from the President, Postmaster General Farley late last month reopened 75% of the old airmail routes to operators who would get three...
...commission for all U. S. aviation, which would commence study at once, make recommendations to the next Congress. "It should be borne in mind that the U. S. has had no broad aviation policy.'' said the White House. Meantime the mails would be flown privately under Mr. Farley's new temporary contracts or under new one-year contracts authorized by Congress. New Face. President Roosevelt, as everyone knows, is an idealist. James Aloysius Farley is, as none can deny, a master politician. And master politicians should, by U. S. definition, always be watched closely, even during...
...independent Ludington Lines, bought Stinson planes from Mr. Cord, later made a confidential airline survey for an advertising agency engaged by Cord. (Elliott Roosevelt got the agency the business through Cord's stockmarket ally, Frank A. Vanderlip.) The survey was not flattering to American Airways. Legend: James Aloysius Farley himself is Cord's good friend. Fact: Mr. Farley lately said, "I don't know Cord." Fact: Day after Cord announced he had bought New York Shipbuilding Corp. for $2,000,000, that company got contracts for some $38,000,000 worth of U. S. war-boats. Fact...
...Especially maddening to old contractors was General Farley's shifting to them the burden of proving their innocence. He declared that, to be eligible, each company must swear none of its officers had been guilty of fraud and collusion. No company officers had been tried, all claimed they were innocent, yet General Farley reserved to himself final judgment of the truth of the companies' affidavits. Only Cord man on the Farley blacklist was R. C. Marshall, a division manager of American Airways, who was quietly detitled last week when American Airways was changed to American Airlines, in which...