Word: farleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...orking with Senator Sheppard against Repeal were two onetime Governors, Pat Neff and Dan Moody. Working against them were Governor "Ma" Ferguson arid her husband Jim. The Roosevelt machine functioned with quiet efficiency on orders from Washington and Postmaster General Farley; theme: "The good old doctrine of States' Rights, so dear to the hearts of all Texans." Vice President Garner quit fishing long enough to announce that he was voting...
Postmaster General Farley, principal patronage dispenser for the Administration, last week completed his peaceful penetration of the most non-political citadel in Washington when his man Emil Hurja (pronounced Hur-ya.) took over a desk in the Public Works Administration. It was all done so smoothly and tactfully that Public Works Administrator Ickes, who is also Secretary of the Interior, thought that he had taken Mr. Hurja in on his own motion. Smart Jim Farley sat back and let him continue to think...
...earned enough to put himself through the University of Washington. He first turned up in Washington, D.C. as secretary to Frank Sulzer, onetime delegate from Alaska. Last year he was an early rider on the Roosevelt bandwagon, got himself chosen to the Chicago convention as an Alaskan delegate. Manager Farley, impressed with his ability to forecast political trends, to find out what voters were thinking, took him under his wing. Most of last year's Farley predictions were based on Hurja calculations. After March 4 Postmaster General Farley took Mr. Hurja to Washington with him, made him his righthand...
...General" Farley's toughest job has been to get Secretary Ickes to see reason in the matter of Democratic appointments. Again & again has Mr. Ickes loudly declared that there would be no politics in his Public Works Administration. Time & again Democrats have been ruthlessly brushed aside from his office. Adroitly Mr. Hurja was steered back & forth across Secretary Ickes' path. Like Jim Farley, Mr. Ickes was impressed with the man's dynamic ability, his easy manners, his poise. Last week he made Mr. Hurja his Public Works administrative assistant, gave him a cubby-hole office in which...
...from City Hall, ferreted out all available copies of the Mangan pamphlet, destroyed them while Chicago sniggered. Last week's tax disclosures did not help Mayor Kelly's already poor standing with President Roosevelt who as Governor of New York ousted Sheriff Thomas ("Tin Box'') Farley because he could not adequately explain his large income. Governor Roosevelt laid down this rule: "Where a public official is under inquiry and it appears that his scale of living or the total of his bank deposits far exceeds his public salary, he owes a positive public duty...