Word: farleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last month when, as leader of a bankers' section of the NRA parade, he had failed to receive such cheers as rang in his ears when he was President of the Board of Aldermen and Acting Mayor. More credible was this straight political reasoning: Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley, national and State chairman of the Democracy, was out with his Bronx ally, New York's Secretary of State Edward Joseph Flynn, to crush Tammany and bring New York City into President Roosevelt's political dominion through Mr. Flynn's longtime protege McKee. Mr. McKee...
...days in the city prior to Mr. McKee's fateful announcement. He had been closeted with Edward Joseph Flynn, New York's Secretary of State, Democratic ruler of The Bronx, Mr. McKee's next door neighbor and political mentor and the sole wedge by which the Farley-Roosevelt State machine might dislodge Tammany from control of the city. The night before Mr. McKee declared himself, reporters found little pucker-faced Louis McHenry Howe, the President's Confidential secretary, in the President's Manhattan home...
...Brien had made such an unimpressive showing in the primaries which nominated him to succeed himself a week before. Rather than take the risk of the Democracy's losing the Nation's No. 1 city to a Republican-led Fusion body, the President, through a Farley-Flynn-McKee finesse, was prepared to take the double hazard of lending his tacit support in a local political fight, thus jeopardizing his national prestige, and affronting the Republican Progressives who helped shove his recovery program through Congress last spring. McKee's support would be drawn from the following of Fusion...
...Farley's little play is becoming too much for him. The stands everywhere convicted; either as the devious promoter of an assistant Tammany ticket to break the anti-Tammany vote, or as the clumsy agent of the President's disgust with Tammany and his determination to set up a less heinous Democracy in New York. Both of these accusations cannot be true; indeed it is difficult to decide which of them is, but in any case the Secretary has bogged himself in an unpretty fashion, and must lose much of the political prestige which alone made him valuable...
...Curry, whose horse has been stumbling along to ignominy in the Gotham mayoralty race, demonstrated in the Albany caucus that Dr. O'Brien can be not only a joke but a joker. For he has Secretary Farley's vote on a resolution pledging unanimous support to regular and trademarked candidates of the Democratic Party. Although the perplexed secretary made awkward efforts to rule out the resolution, he was doomed to failure, for in a party caucus such a resolution is a conventional thing, and cannot be ruled out with any degree of urbanity. This makes his position as the godfather...