Word: farleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been ditched, it was explained, because he did not favor the Roosevelt candidacy. Quickly the anti-Roosevelt battalions rallied to Mr. Shouse's support, charging that Governor Roosevelt was guilty of bad faith. Al Smith vehemently declared: "A principle is at stake?the principle of keeping your word." James Farley, loud chief-of-staff of the Roosevelt forces, boomed out "pooh-poohs," claimed he had the majority necessary to elect Senator Walsh. A friendly gavel would greatly help the Roosevelt candidacy...
Decision to take this radical step was not Manager Farley's. He had called a "pep meeting" for Roosevelt leaders. Bruce Kremer and Senator Wheeler, both of Montana, began to urge a change in the rules to help their candidate. Senator Huey Long, Louisiana's "Kingfish," delivered a loud yawp for the same thing, swung the meeting completely off its balance. Josephus Daniels of North Carolina and Senator Hull of Tennessee chimed in. Manager Farley lost control of the meeting and the Roosevelt movement passed momentarily into the little hands of little men from the South and West. The meeting...
Roosevelt Week. No less active on the eve of the convention were Governor Roosevelt and his aides. James A. Farley, Roosevelt preconvention manager, turned up early in Chicago where he began dangling vice-presidential bait before lesser candidates. He hired the presidential suite at the Congress Hotel. Would Candidate Roosevelt go to Chicago, appear before a deadlocked convention to win the nomination? At Albany the Governor laughed, talked of "hot weather reports," would not say yes or no. John E. Mack, Poughkeepsie Democrat, onetime State Supreme Court justice, was selected as the Roosevelt nominator...
...Roosevelt, if nominated, can't be elected," was a widespread sentiment upon which James A. Farley, the Governor's campaign manager, last week started to war. He predicted that at Chicago his candidate would get 691 votes on the first nominating ballot which would be increased to the necessary 770 by switches before the roll was completed. Leaping ahead to the election itself Manager Farley optimistically .declared...
...Last week Sheriff-eject Farley became tsar of New York City's racket-infested cleaning & dyeing industry. Salary: $50,000 a year...