Word: farleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Republican Senator Lester J. Dickinson of Iowa, who knows nothing good of the New Deal, lifted his vibrant voice in the Senate to excoriate Works Progress Administration. Scornfully he cried: "We are told over and over again by the President, Hopkins and Farley that there is no politics in relief. . . . No politics in relief! . . ." On firmer ground than when he read a canned speech about the poor having to eat canned dog-food (TIME, May 11), Senator Dickinson thereupon read into the Congressional Record, without giving any names, a letter written by "a gentleman who holds...
...Labor's votes to Roosevelt next autumn. Co-organizers of the League were two potent proponents of industrial unionism: John Llewellyn Lewis, whose United Mine Workers had already pledged themselves to Roosevelt, and President Sidney Hillman of Amalgamated Clothing Workers. Their immediate aim was to keep Postmaster General Farley from naming President Daniel Tobin of the A. F. of L.'s Teamsters' Union, a reactionary craft unionist, to be the New Deal's official Labor vote-getter...
There was a formal convention of U. S. hoboes. There were hundreds of celebrities, like the Brazilian Ambassador, Post master General Farley, Marshall Field, Cinemactress Constance Bennett, who emerged from 250 private railroad cars and made their way to shabby old Churchill Downs. At the track Owner Widener shared his box with bright-eyed Sir Bede Clifford, Governor-General of the Bahamas, believing he had never before had so good a chance to win a Derby...
...thirds rule may be abolished at any convention by majority vote. Three days before the Democrats met at Chicago in 1932 James Aloysius Farley, with a majority of delegates sewed up for his candidate, revealed his intention of substituting majority for two-thirds rule. At once opposing factions set up so loud a howl about the poor sportsmanship of changing rules in mid-game that Candidate Roosevelt swiftly backtracked...
About the only convention game the team of Roosevelt & Farley will have to play this year is solitaire. Last week the President and Postmaster General both felt entirely safe in predicting that one of the first things to be accomplished at Philadelphia next June will be abolition of the party's ancient two-thirds rule...