Word: farleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...familiar complaint against the New Deal is that it has virtually wrecked the Civil Service system by loading deserving Democrats into all sorts of good jobs. A prime statistic: in three years Roosevelt, Farley & Co. have made 150,000 straight political appointments, have reduced Federal employment under the merit system from 80% to 63%. A prime reason: in setting up emergency agencies the Administration short-circuited the Civil Service to get men quickly...
...postman who takes a walk on his holiday is a joke. Last week the nation chuckled when it was revealed that Postmaster General James' Aloysius Farley had been granted a payless leave of absence from his Cabinet post, would spend his new leisure at politics. Beginning Aug. 1, announced President Roosevelt, "General" Farley would give his time for three months to his duties as chairman of the Democratic National Committee...
Having drafted popular, vote-getting Frank Murphy to bolster the ticket in Michigan, exactly as he drafted New York's popular, vote-getting Governor Herbert H. Lehman last month, President Roosevelt promptly rewarded him with the same kind of job insurance he gave Postmaster General Farley last week. Graciously declining to accept the High Commissioner's resignation, the President loaded the dice in Frank Murphy's $13,000 gamble by granting him a two-month leave of absence without pay, ending two days after elections...
...Presidential yacht Potomac drew away from Richmond that afternoon for a cruise to Jamestown before returning to Washington, the shouting crowd on shore turned to Postmaster General Farley, who had been left behind, and demanded a speech. Then came the only crass note in a week-end of unsullied idealism. Bellowed Boss Farley, hands cupped to mouth...
First New Deal act to provoke widespread U. S. criticism was the abrupt cancellation by President Roosevelt and Postmaster General Farley in 1934 of every U. S. airmail contract because of alleged collusion. For two months the Army flew the mails, at a cost of 13 lives (TIME, Feb. 19, 1934 et seq.). When this fiasco forced the Government to back down, return the airmail to the commercial lines after ousting nearly 20 top men in the industry, all the airlines involved brought suits totaling some $15,000,000 against the Post Office Department. Last week the Government settled...