Word: farleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arts which Mr. Hadley lacked, inserted himself in City Hall as controller. This summer both of these old friends reached simultaneously for the Republican nomination for mayor. Davis Wilson beat Hadley in the primaries, but split the local G. 0. P. so badly that Democrats from Postmaster General Farley down dared to hope that the City of Friends would this autumn be thoroughly friendly to Democracy for the first time in 50 years. John Bernard ("Jack") Kelly, an enterprising Irish oarsman and contractor who registered as a Democrat only in 1933, was picked by Publisher Julius David Stern...
Grassy Point, a village near Haverstraw, N. Y., gave the world four Farleys: Bill who is a Manhattan insurance man; Phil who is in business with Brother Bill; Tom who used to be sheriff of Rockland County; Jim who is Postmaster General of the U. S. High were Jim Farley's hopes last week of carrying his home State (see col. 2), but higher still were his hopes of carrying his home district. In Haverstraw only fortnight ago he had opened a shiny new $65,000 post office. In Haverstraw last week his own flesh & blood, plump Tom Farley...
Unfortunately Brother Tom is decidedly persona non grata to Victor Jerome Shankey, rival Democrat. Consequently Brother Tom faced not only a Republican opponent but also "Vic" Shankey running as an independent. On election day Brother Jim Farley lent assistance on the spot. As he went from polling place to polling place, mopping his bald dome in the unseasonable November heat, telegrams dated New York City and signed with his name were being delivered to worthy Haverstraw Democrats even as he shook hands with them. Brother Jim was "particularly anxious" to see the local Democratic candidate for the State Assembly elected...
Definite they were. The Assembly candidate whom Jim Farley was "particularly anxious" to see win was trounced by Republican Laurens H. Hamilton, great-great-grandson of Alexander Hamilton and nephew of J. P. Morgan. Brother Tom, for whose success Brother Jim was equally if not so openly anxious, took a licking not from a Republican but from his anti-Farley rival. Bellowed Haverstraw Supervisor Shankey: "Against me I had the Postmaster General, the Chairman of the Democratic National Committee and the Chairman of the Democratic State Committee and I licked them all. Jim came here yesterday, visited every polling place...
Postmaster General Farley: Jim has about the guile and predatory instinct of a big, honest, lumbering and friendly Newfoundland . . . the only "patronage" in either jobs or works which Jim is permitted to pass to the faithful is what is left after the starry-eyed socialicians, the crystal-gazing professors and the "liberal" monopolists of honesty get through passing the pie to the objects of their fondness, favor or philanthropy...