Word: farleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Centers: J. H. Brock, L. C. Farley Jr., H. D. Kernan Jr., N. P. Letarte...
...motive power. Day after day on his western tour Franklin Delano Roosevelt, with speeches widely acclaimed as making sense, held the front pages of the nation. Close beside him at every turn could be seen the rosy bald spot of his astute manager, National Chairman James Aloysius Farley whose purpose, like that of a good boxer, is to keep the Republicans constantly on the defensive, force the fighting. William Gibbs McAdoo who pulled the Roosevelt nomination out of William Randolph Hearst's hat at Chicago ostentatiously joined the Governor's party as it entered California, planted himself close...
...brain trust" which supplies the Governor with economic data, advises him on speeches. 24 newshawks and twelve cameramen. Forward of a diner and a club car, a baggage car had been fixed up as a press room with the ever-present mimeograph. At Salt Lake City, Democratic National Chairman Farley will board the train for the rest of the trip...
...election. G. O. Partisans blamed him for what they called the ''Smear Hoover" campaign. A Raskobite, he was eclipsed by the rise of the Roosevelt candidacy, denied the permanent chairmanship of the Chicago convention (TIME, July 4 & n). Politically jobless under the Democratic regime of Chairman Farley, he was really put into his 'new berth last week by Mr. Raskob, heaviest individual A. A. P. A. contributor...
...believer in the rule of the majority but I am opposed to the return of the saloon and the repeal of the 18th Amendment." Wet Republican editors tush-tushed the vice-presidential nominee for failing to stand by President Hoover's State option formula. Gleefully exclaimed Democratic Chairman Farley: "It looks as if the Republican ticket had a half-dry head and a dried-out tail...