Word: farleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week-end to the Woodmont Rod & Gun Club in the Blue Ridge Mountains near Hancock, Md., the President took his party's sturdiest political wheelhorses-Jack Garner, Joe Robinson, Pat Harrison, Joe Byrns, Jim Farley. After a lunch of venison steak the party retired to the sun-sparkling private lake, where the President reeled in the day's best catch- ten trout, the legal limit. Followed a dinner of broiled pheasant, after which chairs were drawn about a crackling fire and six professional politicos put heads together to scheme their way out of the Bonus...
...Governor Dillon named him to a vacancy in the U. S. Senate. As a Republican Senator he fought the Hoover policies in Washington and the Republican machine in New Mexico. Having helped to elect Roosevelt, he broke with Democrats and last autumn fought the Democratic ma-chine of Postmaster Farley...
Through the 1934 campaign the President did not let Postmaster General Farley fight liberals and progressives of other parties. One striking exception was Cutting, against whom a Democratic wheelhorse, Dennis Chavez, was nominated. After Cutting beat Chavez by 1,284 votes out of 151,000, his victory was contested. Although the liberal-progressive bloc and the New Deal still continued their tacit working agreement, Cutting became the symbol of a basic flaw in that agreement. Then last fortnight, returning from New Mexico where he had been attending to the contest for his seat, Bronson Cutting crashed in Missouri. Franklin Roosevelt...
...bowl and asked me to stand up. They said he was a big banker but how was I to know the bill wasn't counterfeit? Gary Cooper came back of the bowl to see me one night. My, he was so bashful he got all red. Jim Farley came to see me, too. but he wasn't bashful at all, just nice and fatherly. But most nights it got awfully dull." To pass the time Miss McCully crocheted, studied French, wrote poetry...
...Bissell, Sec. 38, Conf. Group I Memorial Hall Mr. Chamberlain, Sec. 9, 19, Conf, Group II Memorial Hall Mr. Coddington, Sec. 1, 10, Conf. Group IV Memorial Hall Mr. Cram, Sec. 42, 43, Conf, Group III Memorial Hall Mr. Edson, Sec. 12, 21, Conf. Group V Memorial Hall Mr. Farley, Sec. 41, Conf. Group VI Memorial Hall Mr. Gleason, Sec. 2, Conf. Group VII Memorial Hall Mr. Hooing, Sec. 3, 22, Conf. Group VIII New Lect. Hall Mr. Jones, Sec. 23, 30, Conf. Group IX New Lect. Hall Mr. Lewis, Sec. 4 Conf. Group X New Lect. Hall Mr. Lynd...