Word: farleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...candidate for President, Jim Farley has one big liability: to the U. S. he is the personification of patronage and cheap politics in the New Deal. He has also one great asset: his personal hold on the party machinery, seven years of camaraderie with the politicians who will control votes in the next Democratic convention...
...experiments do not need to be told that he is more conservative than the New Deal. He thus has a foot in both camps, Roosevelt and anti-Roosevelt. If by playing old-fashioned politics with his cards close to his necktie a man can become President in 1940, Jim Farley is the man to do it. Already he has begun...
...self-effacing Farley boomlet began last month with a speech by him at Lynchburg, Va., home of irrevocably anti-Roosevelt old Carter Glass. Mr. Farley there swore fealty once more to Franklin Roosevelt, saluted his humanitarian aims, kept silence regarding the President's economic surrealism. Same week in Albany, Jim Farley's friends moved to tie up for him the New York delegation to the 1940 Democratic National Convention...
Reconciling his innate conservatism with his oft-repeated fervor for Surrealist Roosevelt is no chore for Jim Farley. He simply says, "Why, I was always a liberal." But he is aware that his conservatism is as well-advertised as his Roman Catholicism, of which it is part & parcel...
With him on his trip Jim Farley took along his personal and party publicist, Eddie Roddan, and anotherkey man in the national Democratic machine: Treasurer Oliver Adams Quayle Jr. Everywhere he saw and handshook all manner of men & women-railroad workers, col- lege boys, lady Democrats, postal em-ployes-but especially Democratic county chairmen, the machine's roller bearings. He made safe, resounding speeches on salutary topics...