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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harry Hopkins is not blind to the sweet uses of WPA when political necessities arise. The coming national election will be his fourth as an insider, and Mr. Hopkins has had time to learn a lot at the knees of Franklin Roosevelt and Jim Farley. Evidence of his political maturity was that he did not stand in the way of special WPA pay raises so opportunely given in Kentucky and Oklahoma last month. In these two States the primary opponents of Senators Barkley and Elmer Thomas had pointed at local WPA wages lower than those paid in neighboring States, shaming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Men at Work | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

...Morgenthaus to their farm at Fishkill, N. Y.; the Woodrings to Cape Cod; the Cummingses to California; Mr. Farley & children en route to Alaska (sec p. 13); the Wallaces to Colorado; the Ropers and Madam Perkins in England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Men at Work | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

...hours before Franklin Roosevelt set out across the continent to separate "liberal" sheep from "conservative" goats (see p. 7), quietly out of Washington for a tour of his own slipped James Aloysius Farley, chief shepherd of all Franklin Roosevelt's political herds. No believer in griping party purges, Jim Farley's mission was to soothe feelings already hurt in primary fights, encourage sheep and goats to stampede all together in November. His first stop was at Fond du Lac, Wis., his second at Sheboygan, Wis., his third at Clinton, Iowa. Altogether, Shepherd James Farley planned to stop, look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Quiet Shepherd | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

...picked up the telephone, dictated a 25-word statement to his secretary in Albany: "If my party desires me to be a candidate for the office of U. S. Senator to succeed Senator Copeland, I will accept the nomination." Some leaders rejoiced, others fumed. Franklin Roosevelt and Postmaster General Farley got together for a hasty conference. But such are the rules of party politics that, by his adroit and well-timed move, Governor Lehman had practically appropriated for himself one place on the ticket which the Roosevelt Administration had counted on disposing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Candid Friend | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

Postmaster General Farley (Wed. 10 p.m., NBC-Blue) addresses the University of Virginia Conference at Charlottesville. Subject: "Economic Stability and Government Investment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Programs Reviewed: Jul. 4, 1938 | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

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