Word: farleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charges of "duplicity, double-crossing and double-dealing" against his subordinates. The Prohibition Bureau ceased to exist legally when it was swallowed up by the Justice Department's new Division of Investigation under John Edgar Hoover. All 1,800 Dry agents were dismissed, 1,000 rehired. Postmaster General Farley solemnly announced that enforcement would continue as before until Repeal...
Ways & means of "applying the heat" to the NRA campaign began to crop up in the news. At Hyde Park President Roosevelt issued an executive order which permitted cancellation of all government contracts with non-NRA manufacturers. In Manhattan Postmaster General Farley talked of prosecuting violators of NRA agreements under the postal fraud statute. In Washington Relief Administrator Harry Lloyd Hopkins announced that the Blue Eagle would get all his spending money. The boycott raised its menacing head when General Johnson inaugurated a "Buy Now" campaign with the buying to be done exclusively from NRA members. To a Baltimore utility...
...week the State score for Repeal stood 20-to-0. Elections this year in 16 more States were definitely in sight after Colorado's Governor moved for a vote Sept. 4. Postmaster General Farley, who had led the Administration's anti-Prohibition campaign, marched in to see President Roosevelt and report on the situation. Said he afterwards: "The country is safe. We will have Repeal by Christmas. The President agrees with...
...fanfare of headlines last week issued a civil service reform that was supposed to make every deserving Democrat quake in his boots. President Roosevelt was proposing to take all postmasters out of politics and put their jobs on "a strictly civil service basis." For this purpose Post-master-General Farley had prepared a sweeping executive order which the President signed along with a recommendation that the next session of Congress enact permanent legislation to the same end. Without bothering to study the President's order closely Democratic leaders throughout the land groaned in loud dismay at what they took...
Having fired this opening gun, "General" Farley prepared for a South-wide radio address from Memphis on the eve of the Tennessee-Alabama-Arkansas voting. Senators Robinson of Arkansas and Harrison of Mississippi were ready to make a whirlwind campaign in behalf of Repeal on the strict basis of party loyalty...