Word: farleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the New Deal came into office his friends boosted him for the job of Secretary of Labor, even addressed him as "Mr. Secretary." But Franklin Roosevelt insisted on Miss Perkins, whom the A. F. of L. opposed. Jim Farley asked Miss Perkins to take Mr. McGrady as Assistant Secretary, but she declined. So he was made Deputy NRAdministrator in charge of Labor. His frank, outspoken manner, which makes him popular with newshawks, endeared him to General Hugh Johnson who is one of his stanchest admirers...
Immediately after he spectacularly settled the coal strike of 1933, Madam Secretary Perkins met Postmaster General Farley at a Cabinet meeting and said, "I was mistaken about that Mr. McGrady," and he promptly became her aide. In Washington he lives quietly with one of his married daughters. His two sons are dead and his wife, a large Irishwoman, lives mostly in Boston with another married daughter. In private life he is an unusually pious Catholic, carries a rosary, also a crucifix blessed for a Happy Death, and on which, if ill or unable to get to church, he may gain...
...visit, Papal Secretary Pacelli also visited the Cardinal-Archbishops of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago. He made a dash to the Pacific Coast, where San Francisco's Catholic Mayor Angelo Rossi kissed the episcopal ring, dashed back East to Manhattan, where Catholic Postmaster General James A. Farley also knelt...
Married. Charles Saxon Farley Smith, son of South Carolina's Senator Ellison DuRant Smith; and Laura M. Douglas, of Washington; by Rev. Zë Barney Thorne Phillips, Chaplain of the Senate; in Washington...
...Wesleyan freshmen. Governor Lehman's defeated rival, William Francis Bleakley, back to his law practice at Yonkers, N. Y. Michigan's Governor-elect Frank Murphy, a flight to the Philippines. Massachusetts' Senator-elect Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., to Bermuda. Democratic Boss James Aloysius Farley, to Ireland. National Republican Chairman John Daniel Miller Hamilton, to Manhattan, to worry about an estimated $1,300,000 party deficit. Vice President John Nance Garner, in Uvalde, Tex., stayed put, as did Senator William Edgar Borah, in Boise, Idaho, after narrowly escaping pneumonia. Governor Alf Landon, duckhunting. New Jersey's Senator...