Word: farleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When President Roosevelt sailed off on his vacation the first of July, he left on his desk at the White House a document which seemed to indicate that not he but Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley was the real political boss of the Administration. Last week President Roosevelt, back in the White House again, got around to reasserting his political supremacy over...
...made Director of the U. S. Bureau of Mines. The day he arrived to receive his commission it was discovered that the President had not signed it. Scribbled on the margin was the note: "Held up because of political objections by the P. M. G." (TIME, July 30). Mr. Farley had found that the 61- year-old engineer, who had mined in Siam, Siberia, South Africa, Turkey, India and China, had once described himself as a Republican, had even tried to become Director of Mines under Herbert Hoover. Boss Farley was determined to let no Republican into the Bureau...
...Even Mr. Farley was sufficiently embarrassed by such a slap to have one of his underlings tell the Press that he really would not interfere with a technical appointment, that he merely liked to know who was appointed before the announcement was made. And as soon as the President returned Mr. Ickes went to the White House to protest the indignity which had been thrust on his Department...
Clay Precedent. Down to West Virginia, politically a bastard offspring of the Solid South, the New Deal's political Generalissimo, Postmaster Farley, sent an old Democratic wheelhorse named Clement Lawrence Shaver. The last time the country heard of Mr. Shaver was just ten years ago, when as Democratic National Chairman he managed John W. Davis' magnificently unsuccessful run for the Presidency. Reason for sending Oldster Shaver back to his native State was to have him run for Senator against Old Deal Republican Senator Hatfield. Though he had the blessing of Mr. Farley, not as Postmaster General, not as party boss...
...Governor Lehman saw Jockeys Don Meade and Silvio Coucci each win three races in one afternoon. Jockey Coucci's mounts were Fidelis, Deduce and General Farley, named for the Postmaster General who arrived later in the week...