Word: farleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...find where the fate of National Prohibition will eventually be decided, look away down South in Dixie. Next week Alabama. Arkansas and Tennessee will hold elections to ratify the 21st Amendment. "If all three agree to Repeal," said Postmaster General Farley last week, "it will all be over...
With not a single State dissenting, 16 have so far disavowed national Prohibition. Sixteen more will vote before December. Enough additional States may possibly join the Wet parade to effect Repeal by Jan. 1. Such was the earnest hope of nondrinking "General" Farley as he and his Democratic machine concentrated their activities on the South last week...
...happy to receive a report that his Civilian Conservation Corps had been completely enrolled (274,-375 ), was now working in the woods, had already sent home more than $6,000,000 to its jobless relations. ¶ Waiting at the White House was a huge patronage roll prepared by Postmaster Farley for the President's approval. July 15 was to be the day when the Democracy got its hands on its first batch of Federal small jobs. ¶ By means of a highly complicated schedule, the President had managed to see most of his brood during his vacation cruise...
...marked with as many political barbecues and as much oratory as in years gone by, but July 4 will bring gladness to the hearts of at least 1,000 deserving Democrats. Last week, working in a swelter of job-hungry politicians, Postmaster James Aloysius Farley, patronage dispenser to the democracy, had prepared a list of i.ooo recipients of key positions in the Public Works and Home-owners Loan Administrations. The President, expected back at the White House this week, where he would begin to pay for the loyalty of a Congress which had denied him nothing, was to assign...
Postmaster General James Aloysius ("Jim") Farley accepted an honorary D.C.L. degree last week from the University of the South at Sewanee, Tenn. "It's my first degree," cried he. "It was a beautiful ceremony." Then "General'' Farley, a Roman Catholic, flew back to Washington without hearing how he had almost failed to get his D.C.L. The trustees of famed, conservative Protestant Episcopal Sewanee had met in special session, with Episcopal Bishop Thomas Frank Gailor presiding. For every honorary degree unanimous consent was necessary. When ballots on "General" Farley's name were scrutinized, one looked like...