Word: farleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...target" of TIME, Publisher Amon Carter of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram is one of those positive, colorful characters to whose deeds and utterances legend speedily attaches. He was the central figure of TIME'S report of Postmaster General Farley's junket to Texas last month. Let readers seeking a sharper picture of Publisher Carter reread TIME'S report of Oct. 30 and compare it point by point with Publisher Carter's auto-interpretation, published in full (unedited) below...
First-you say that "Publisher Carter reputedly financed the Garner-Farley junket over American Airways, of which he is a heavy stockholder." Permit me to say that I own no stock in the American Airways, though at one time I was the possessor of 500 shares, which I disposed of many months...
...News did borrow TIME's phrase about Jim Farley, "big, bald and breezy," and gave appropriate credit...
...first phrase of praise with resonance for the ages was bestowed last week upon another Cabinet member. In a speech at Newburgh, N. Y., Second Assistant Postmaster General William Washington Howes, 46, lawyer and Democratic National Committeeman from South Dakota, saluted his chief, James Aloysius Farley, as "the greatest Postmaster General since Benjamin Franklin He predicted that "General" Farley will "rise much higher in political life...
...Farley appointment of last week: Henry Clay Swanson, 62, onetime grocer, brother of the Secretary of the Navy, to be postmaster of Danville. Va.. on whose Main Street he lives. The distinguished Secretary brother wangled, when a Senator, a new Danville post office, now under construction...