Word: farleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since his western trip was to be in the nature of a political reconoissance for the 1936 campaign, the President summoned to his mother's house last week some of his ablest advisers. Among those to pull up chairs in the Presidential study at Hyde Park were Postmaster General Farley, Democratic Pressagent Charles Michelson, Publisher Julius David Stern of Philadelphia, and Charles C. Pettijohn. the cinema lawyer who last year directed California's Stop-Sinclair movement...
Vacancy. Outside of his own clique of back-scratchers in Louisiana, Huey Long had few friends in public life. On the principle of de mortuis nil nisi bonum, his numerous enemies gave the Kingfish a charitable verbal sendoff. Spokesmen like General Johnson, Father Coughlin, James A. Farley and the New York Times chorused, in effect: "I didn't like anything about him, but I'm sorry he was assassinated...
...luncheon table sat four potent political bigwigs: 1) Postmaster General Farley bringing tidings of the state of Democracy as far west as Hawaii; 2) Mayor Edward J. Kelly of Chicago; 3) Democratic National Chairman Charles E. Broughton of Wisconsin; 4) Robert H. Jackson, Counsel to the Bureau of Internal Revenue, power in upper New York State politics...
Back in Los Angeles after a fortnight of fun in Hawaii was Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley. While bathing and basking in the sun there, he ran afoul Naval regulations by taking a cinema of the arrival of the Pan-American Clipper. Loyal Democrats paid $3 apiece for a raw fish and octopus banquet at which Boss Farley told them: "The United States is making reasonably steady strides back to prosperity. You can see it everywhere. You can take any index you please...
...usual in defeat, the Democrats thought one thing and said another. Speaker Byrns shrugged it off with: "The Rhode Island election had no national significance." Tennessee's Senator McKellar bravely belittled: "Their gloating . . . is like the Democrats rejoicing over a victory in Mississippi." Postmaster General Farley, in Hawaii, was sure "Roosevelt could carry Rhode Island today...