Word: farleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last December Postmaster General Farley learned that Postmistress Harrington's term was due to expire in January, listened sympathetically to a Highland Falls, N. Y. bigwig who wished to appoint a deserving female Democrat in her stead. The news leaked out. Opposition from all quarters, especially from U. S. Army officials, who considered her post inviolate from patronage, forced "General" Farley to drop his candidate. Last fortnight the Army and Navy Journal charged that James A. Farley was still out to oust Postmistress Harrington...
...days before President Roosevelt put all first, second and third-class postmasterships under the Civil Service (TIME, Aug. 3), declared the Journal, Postmaster General Farley called for an examination of new applicants for the West Point job under the old rules, which permitted appointment of anyone of the three top candidates. Hopping mad, the Journal editorialized thus about Miss Harrington...
...year salary and a schoolteacher's pension of some $1,200 a year, Postmistress Harrington supports two elderly female cousins. Last week from her West Point desk, over which hangs a photograph of Mr. Farley, she sent in her application for examination. Said she: "I've always loved the Army and wanted to be where the Army was. ... All those on the post are my friends. . . . But I'll have to get another job somehow. I don't know just where...
...national election since 1860 have politicians been so Negro-minded as in 1936. There were 32 blackamoor delegates and alternates at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia last June. Fortnight ago, after much soul-searching, Democratic National Chairman James A. Farley picked his Negro campaign managers. Last week the Republicans completed their slate of Negro managers. Estimates of the amount of money both parties will spend to corral the Negro vote before election day ran as high...
These practicalities of politics were undertaken by Bosses Farley and Hamilton as if the Negro were no different from any other racial group in the U. S. electorate. With each of them a vote was a vote and neither was publicly concerned with the volcanoes of prejudice and emotion behind their activities. Both were aware that local machines in the North can give Negroes a semblance of political equality without running into social difficulties. In large cities where the Negro population is packed together in a small area, few whites even have to do business with minor Negro jobholders...