Word: farleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into office without any mandate. . . . There is not even the absolute certainty that Roosevelt would be a week or two later in calling out the troops in strikes than Landon. . . . It is foolish for the labor unions to waste more of their good money on the Roosevelt campaign. Jim Farley has done a beautiful job. . . . Governor Landon is a nice fellow who is over his head. . . . Colonel Knox is overstating his case so consistently that he is wrong even when he is right. . . . Browder and the Communists are kissing Roosevelt. . . . Lemke is running for President with three Messiahs...
Another money-raising device was adopted last week when Chairman James A. Farley sat down with 1,300 other Democrats in Philadelphia's Penn Athletic Club. They ate fruit cocktail, consomme, filet mignon, two vegetables, combination salad, dessert and coffee and they paid a minimum of $100 apiece for the meal. Gross proceeds: $130,000 plus...
...great idea," said Boss Farley...
Said Socialist Nominee Norman Thomas who happened to be in Philadelphia next day: "It seems incredible that 1,300 people would pay $100 for a $2.50 dinner to listen to Jim Farley and watch him eat. I paid 2? for a newspaper this morning and saw a picture of Farley eating -that was enough...
...almost irreparable damage done by the New Deal, the Yale News comes to the conclusion that "mistakes are better than inaction." Before President Roosevelt arrived America had no Farley, no Tugwell, no Passmaquoddy, no N.R.A., no Guffey Act, no A.A.A., no Silver Purchase Act, no boondoggling. We will take "inaction...