Word: farleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, Dec. 14, Letters column, you credit the remark, "As Maine goes, so goes Vermont," to my beloved boss, James Aloysius Farley, and call it the best wisecrack of the 1936 campaign...
...Farley, who originated the remark, "As Maine goes, so goes Vermont". On election night, as returns flashed in to indicate a Roosevelt landslide, I wrote out the crack, marked it "col and ½ 8 pt. bold face," handed it to the linotyper. It was printed in the paper of Nov. 4 and the copy for the remark, as I can prove, was stamped about 10:20 p. m. Nov. 3. JULIUS MILTON WESTHEIMER...
...sent a telegram to President Roosevelt at the White House immediately after the news came over the radio that New Hampshire had deserted the Landon Column: "Congratulations on your election again, also on Mr. Farley's prediction, 'As Maine goes so goes Vermont.' " I meant by Mr. Farley's prediction that he had conceded Maine and Vermont to the Republicans. My modesty forbids my allowing anyone else to take credit...
...Hampshire. On election night came news that the Knox New Hampshire paper had conceded the State to Roosevelt. Promptly wisecracked Rewriteman-Prognosticator MacAllen: "As Maine goes, so goes Vermont." Credit to whom credit is due. Undoubtedly the idea burst to the lips of others; but MacAllen was ahead of Farley...
...potency of Mr. Davies' political backing was indicated by the guests honoring him at a private dinner in Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton Hotel last week. With Senator Pat Harrison as honorary chairman and Senator James F. Byrnes as toastmaster, the list included Postmaster General Farley, Presidential Secretaries McIntyre and Early, Senators Barkley, Copeland, Davis, Duffy, McAdoo, Tycoons Walter P. Chrysler and Gerard Swope...