Word: farleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus replied genial Jim Farley, generalissimo of the Democratic party, to a question about the Republican nominee for president next November...
...refusal to comment on the Republican candidate was typical of Mr. Farley's breezy confidence concerning the reelection of Franklin D. Roosevelt as President of the United States. "Oh, that's all right--don't you worry about that!" he replied to a discreet query about the election this autumn. Not a shadow of doubt about the issue was betrayed in the Farley smile and the suave Farley manner as he joked with "the boys...
There is little probability of a prospective realignment of American political parties into "Liberals" and "Conservatives," Mr. Farley declared. "Not in our lifetime," he said. "Jefferson and Jackson have lasted us a long time now, and they'll do for a while longer...
...than Governor Curley (see above), is Michigan's onetime (1932-35) Governor William Alfred Comstock, a Democratic wheelhorse who went bankrupt last year, but whose cash and efforts had been credited with sustaining his Party in Michigan through some 30 lean, mostly Republican, years. Charging that National Chairman Farley had broken a 1932 promise to distribute Michigan's Federal jobs through the regular Party organization, handing patronage instead to such political parvenus as Father Coughlin, Democrat Comstock last week announced his resignation from the Party. Cried he: "The Hogskis and the O'Piggys, in their scramble...
...Chicago last week William Harold ("Red") Hodgson, who claims to be the original composer of The Music Goes 'Round and Around and who two months ago agreed to give Messrs. Farley & Riley two-thirds of the profits on his composition in recognition of their exploitation of it, thought better of his generosity, started a suit for plagiarism, asked for an injunction to prevent Columbia from showing The Music Goes 'Round...