Word: farleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Several professional politicians were politely cynical over Mr. Roosevelt's moralizing. Republican National Chairman John D. M. Hamilton remembered occasions upon which Mr. Roosevelt had been glad to see parties scrambled: in Minnesota two years ago when the Democratic nominees for Governor and Senator were withdrawn by Jim Farley to let the Farmer-Labor candidates beat the Republicans; in Nebraska two years ago when Mr. Roosevelt, a Democrat, urged the re-election of Senator Norris, an Independent Republican, over a Democrat; in. Michigan, when Republican aid was sought in the primary to nominate Frank Murphy for Governor...
...talk "Purge," Mr. Roosevelt summoned Democratic National Chairman Jim Farley to Hyde Park-first time they had talked since Mr. Roosevelt's excursion into the primary States and Mr. Farley's trip to make peace in States where primaries were over. For one whole afternoon they rode around the Presidential estate, talking without danger of being overheard. Although Mr. Farley was against the Purge early in the summer and was reported still to view Mr. Roosevelt's recently renewed Purge with alarm, when they came back from the ride it was understood that their differences were reconciled...
...President Patrick Henry Callahan of Louisville Varnish Co., a Democratic letter-writer almost as assiduous as National Chairman Jim Farley, wrote the latter saying: ". . . Get busy on some sort of a plan to get the Roosevelt philosophy to the traveling men and salesmen of the country." Most of Louisville Varnish's sales men, said Colonel Callahan, had become infected by the anti-Roosevelt feeling they encounter everywhere among their customers. "This " . . reactionary line of thinking is thrown into our salesmen five or six times every day and it is having its effect. . . . Salesmen, as you know, do a great...
...Apple? To bulwark himself politically, President Cárdenas recently reorganized his party from top to bottom, changed its name from National Revolutionary Party to Party of the Mexican Revolution, put in, as his Jim Farley, Luis Inocencio Rodriguez, his longtime personal favorite. If Cárdenas does not run again he might choose Luis Rodriguez as his successor. Another politico who might try to grab the job is Mexico's loudmouthed, posturing, Moscow-visiting Vicente Lombardo Toledano. He claims to lead 1,000,000 organized proletarians in his Confederation of Mexican Workers-by far the most potent force...
...Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley, Director John M. Stahl (Letter of Introduction, Back Street, Magnificent Obsession) last week addressed a request for a series of U. S. postage stamps exhibiting the likenesses of cinemactors. Said Director Stahl...