Word: farleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Postmaster General Farley decided to expand U. S. airmail mileage some 15,000 miles, at an annual cost of $1,332,938. He added twelve new round-trips daily to established domestic airmail routes. He extended air mail service to five new cities by authorizing stops on existing runs at Providence, New Haven, Elmira, Scranton, Youngstown. He introduced airmail to the Hawaiian Islands by authorizing Inter-Island Airways, Ltd. to carry mail between Honolulu, Lihue, Hilo and Wailuku...
...afternoon chat with Postmaster General Farley, the President learned that state Democratic leaders were complaining because in some Republican districts G. O. P. officials were playing politics with Federal relief money. To the Press the President frankly remarked that the Democrats were equally guilty with the Republicans...
...case in point, Republicans promptly and bitterly complained, was Maine. Final returns from last fortnight's election there were heralded by Postmaster Farley as "proof ample that the New Deal meets with the majority of the people." In winning the first re-election of a Democratic Governor since the Civil War, Louis J. Brann had not let Maine's electorate forget that in the past two years $108,000,000 of Federal money had been pumped into the State, which was five times the Government largess given Republican New Hampshire. The arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune editorialized...
Roche Defeat. "This looks like a good healthy battle," James Aloysius Farley had told the man and woman who wanted to be Colorado's Democratic Governor...
From Hyde Park the Californian went to Manhattan, met Postmaster General Farley who said "Call me Jim," went on to Washington, saw Relief Administrator Hopkins, Secretaries Morgenthau and Ickes, Chairman Jesse Jones of RFC, Chairman John H. Fahey of the Home Loan Bank Board, Governor William Irving Myers of the Farm Credit Administration. Still enthusiastic, Mr. Sinclair declared: "I won't quote anybody as approving my campaign but I will say that . . . not one official expressed the opinion that my plan [End Poverty In California] was not practical. ... I am going back to assure the people of California that...