Word: farleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week James Aloysius Farley could dress up in a dinner coat, sit on a desk in Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel, grin like an Easter egg, swing his feet and very properly crow: "The New Deal has been magnificently sustained. . . . Our majority in the U. S. Senate and our ma jority in the House. . . . The greatest plurality ever given to Democratic candidates...
...Deal philosophy, yet shouting his support of the New Deal. There is a Republican, the traditional strong-government man, damning too much government. Everywhere are men of both parties successfully hiding their ideas on every thing except their allegiance to Washington and Lincoln. Here is Mr. Farley jumping off the Sinclair boat, there is Hiram Johnson tagging along with Him. Everywhere the fiery G. O. P. denouncing the Democrats' and handouts, to the voters, has seen its rally crowds going out to find the Democrats, and has had to soft-pedal. Perhaps no campaign has ever been so confused...
...Again the New Deal administration convicts itself of the charge of using Federal relief funds for political purposes and as a substitute for a campaign fund. Curiously enough every State except Maine received a slice. Maine has already voted. Maine, under the Farley plan of Tammanyizing the country, manifestly is recorded as having had hers...
...week's election. Next day the nation which two years ago overwhelmingly ousted the 31st President from the White House rejected Mr. Hoover's political advice with even greater emphasis and whittled the Republican opposition in the Senate down to a historic low. Democratic Boss James Aloysius Farley had asked for a two-thirds Democratic majority in the Senate to support President Roosevelt. With a roar of approval the country uprose to give him what he wanted-and more. So complete was the rout of Senate Republicans that Boss Farley could well remark on Election Night: "Famous Republican...
Minnesota. The Republicans were hoping to slip to victory while an argument went on between the Farmer-Laborites headed by Senator Shipstead and Governor Olson and the Democrats as to who had support of the New Deal. Emil Hurja, Boss Farley's right-hand man, last week visited Minnesota and announced that the Administration was solidly behind the Democratic ticket-Einar Hoidale for Senator, John Regan for Governor. Hardly had Mr. Hurja got back to Washington, however, before President Roosevelt, who had dealt more than kindly with Messrs. Shipstead and Olson, announced that he was not taking sides...