Word: farleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Perhaps Mr. Farley thinks that because the people out in the Midwest live in the prairie states, as did Lincoln, who was never heard of very much before his elevation to the Presidency they are all dumbbells, freaks, rubes and hicks...
Last week in Manhattan Tammany Hall uncorked some of its long-bottled dislike of New Deal operations in New York State. From potent Tammanyite Daniel Florence Cohalan to State Democratic Chairman James Aloysius Farley went a tart letter inquiring how on earth he justified a third term for Governor Herbert Henry Lehman. "Can it be," asked this Catholic onetime State Supreme Court Justice, ". . . because he is a Jew? . . . If, in order to give Roosevelt a chance to carry New York ... he and you must appoint a Jew as candidate . . . can you not select for us a candidate who . . . will exalt...
Since Publisher Knox suffered a moral defeat in Illinois, the real victor of the primary season was Governor Landon, whose half-defeat in California was offset by the margin of his victory in New Jersey. Last week as Landonites went about preening themselves, Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley mounted a platform in Grand Rapids, Mich, to crack their candidate as follows...
Next day Representative Dewey Short, only Republican from Missouri in Congress, rose in the House to answer Mr. Farley...
...asks who in the world was Alf Landon and who knew anything about him two years ago. I retort, who ever heard of Jim Farley two years...