Word: farleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Being expert at such work he picked the Administration's most vulnerable spot and began to hammer. The greater part of the Senate despises Huey Long. But Senator Norris also despises Postmaster General Farley with the fervor of a man who hates patronage; Senators Cutting, La Follette and other liberals despise Mr. Farley because in the last election he put the Democratic Party ahead of liberalism; most Republican regulars despise Mr. Farley as a matter of policy. Mr. Long was shrewd enough to pick Mr. Farley as his target, thereby gaining a maximum number of allies...
...demanding an investigation of the Postmaster General on charges of a dozen kinds of misconduct and dishonesty-from printing stamps for his friends to profiting on the sale of building materials to the Government. When this resolution was introduced, again when it was referred to committee-he denounced Mr. Farley with good quotable denunciation. Said...
...rebuttals the Press gave few headlines, neither to Senator O'Mahoney who declared: "There is not now and never has been ... a man of greater national ability and conscientious devotion to duty than the Hon. James A. Farley," nor to Senator Lewis who cried: "The man who has the highest estimation of Congress and the respect of its members is James A. Farley...
...Administration's friends were uneasy. They could vote down Mr. Long's proposal but they could not silence him. He seemed determined to make Mr. Farley a daily topic of denunciation. Before the Post Offices and Post Roads Committee could act on his request for a Farley investigation he offered another resolution ordering Secretary Ickes to send to the Senate any reports by his investigators about attempts by Mr. Farley or companies in which he is interested to profit from PWA contracts. It was a shrewd move, for Mr. Ickes and Mr. Farley have clashed on many points...
...James A. Farley, sunning himself on Florida's beaches, promptly gave up heliotherapy and headed for Washington. Harold Ickes, looking most uncomfortable, paid a prolonged call at the White House. Afterward he announced to the Press: "There has been no investigation made of Farley as a person. . . . PWA reserves a right to investigate any project financed with its funds. Transactions involving [Farley's] firms may have been investigated. ... If they have, the findings will be turned over to the Senate...