Word: farleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will help the foreign students here in the University. That plan, in their own words, has been overwhelmingly successful for the individuals who received the scholarship. But the second aspect, in spite of honest effort, has failed for the simple reason that no one student, even another Jim Farley, can be Social Secretary, State Department, and Reception Committee all in one for the great number of foreign students in Cambridge...
Accordingly the decision of the Columbia system to limit debates to flesh and blood candidates upholds the interests of the public in general. And Mr. Farley, particularly, should beam approval, for no candidates since Satan has promised such great worlds to a gullible public as "his master's voice...
Last week Democratic Chairman Farley appointed Joseph E. Davies, Wilsonian chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, to be vice-chairman and executive committee chairman of the Democratic National Campaign Committee. Washington wiseacres who believe that rich and regal Mrs. Marjorie Post Hutton Davies would dearly love to become an Ambassador's lady conceded that her husband could not have picked a likelier apprenticeship...
...Democratic State Convention refused to endorse Democratic Senatorial Nominee Carpenter. Chiefly because of him, Senator Edward Burke resigned as Democratic National Committeeman. Nominee Carpenter went to the National Convention in Philadelphia, could not even get in to see National Boss Farley. In Washington President Roosevelt politely received him, firmly informed him that he was first, last and always for Republican George Norris. In Nebraska 40,000 citizens nominated Senator Norris by petition, Democrats swung in behind him, and Nominee Carpenter was strongly urged to withdraw from the contest...
...carry New York, which is normally Republican, a Democrat has to roll up a large majority in New York City. Tammany loves neither Mr. Farley nor the New Deal, but Herbert Lehman is a popular Governor. So, although he was jeopardizing his banking business to which he earnestly wishes to return, Herbert Lehman last week went down the line for his personal friend Franklin Roosevelt, not only accepted renomination but promised if he were re-elected to serve out his full term without resigning...