Word: farleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...James A. Farley, the Roosevelt campaign manager, was in Davenport, Iowa, last week to harvest a crop of 26 convention votes for his candidate. After pledging its delegation to use "all honorable means" to help nominate the New Yorker, the meeting howled down a proposal that Oklahoma's Governor Murray, who ran Governor Roosevelt a nip & tuck race in the Des Moines Register and Tribune poll, be named as second choice. Iowa Democracy also favored re-submission of the 18th Amendment to the States...
...Roosevelt. Thirty-two years ago Theodore Roosevelt ousted a district attorney, not because he was charged with inefficiency, but because he declined to assist in prosecuting local election frauds. Last week T. R.'s fifth cousin, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, removed from office burly Sheriff Thomas M. Farley...
...Sheriff Farley, a Tammany pillar and close friend of Boss John Francis Curry, lost his job not because he had been charged with incompetence, permitting gambling in his political club and retaining interest on litigants' money, but because he was unable credibly to explain a personal fortune of $357,000 which, taken from a mysterious tin box, far exceeded his gross public salary (TIME, Feb. 29 et ante...
...days after Sheriff Farley's removal the man who unearthed the evidence against him, Counsel Samuel Seabury of the Legislative investigation, went to Cincinnati. Addressing the City Charter (Reform) Committee, he took a thrust at Governor Roosevelt for failing to oust Farley sooner, flayed Tammany corruption, sounded a national note which some observers interpreted as a non-partisan bid by Inquisitor Seabury for the Presidency. "[Tammany] now reaches out," said he, "to use its influence in support of some candidate who will be friendly to it, if indeed, he does not openly wear the stripes of the Tammany Tiger...
Governor Roosevelt proceeded to question Shire-Reeve Farley himself. The Tammany district leader's voice had a wheedle to it that reporters had not heard when he blustered before the Legislative inquiry four months ago, meeting questions as to his financial resources with the reply that his money came from "a wonderful tin box." The Governor asked about his allegedly incompetent assistants...