Word: farleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mint at Denver. And 1,796 mi. farther east, beneath a huge portrait of Benjamin Franklin in his big new Washington office, sat the bald-headed man who was morally, physically and financially responsible for the fabulous shipment. By law it was up to Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley to get the Government's gold from mint door to mint door intact...
Last week Boss Farley heard how Upton Sinclair, in a victory no less complete, had become the Democratic nominee for Governor of California. The Postmaster General rubbed his bald pate and finally conceded: "If Sinclair is the choice of the Party, there's nothing else we can do but congratulate him. The Party has never failed to support its nominee...
...bale of congratulations!" was what Postmaster General Farley sent Democrat Edward Raymond Burke three weeks ago when that New Dealer snatched Nebraska's senatorial nomination from old-time Democrat Charles W. Bryan...
...vote the Republican ticket in November. If such a mass movement should develop, it might sweep many a luckless Democratic Representative out of his seat and return to the House a batch of Republicans who would do the prestige of the Roosevelt Administration no national good whatever. Both Boss Farley and President Roosevelt were anxiously aware of these possibilities when Republican Senator Hastings of Delaware said the thing they did not want said: "Upton Sinclair is a Socialist running on a Socialist platform heartily endorsing the New Deal. ... At last we are beginning to get things straight...
...removing a citizen's shirt. In the centre sat Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau?a clown juggling money with a lap full of gold bricks. General Hugh S. Johnson was jumping irascibly on the roped figure of Industry. Also to be seen were Madam Secretary Perkins, Postmaster General Farley, Uncle Sam on a cross, dying cattle, silent factories, skulls, reaching arms, and a reformer chasing nudes out of the cinema...