Word: farleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...California Mr. Farley was faced with the reverse of this situation. The Administration was already committed to Senator Johnson and the Postmaster General fulfilled his promise to say a few kind words for Hiram. Sample: "It makes me proud and more at home to march shoulder to shoulder in the same army with your progressive leader, Hiram Johnson." But because the Administration in Washington had shut off the Senatorial hopes of ambitious California Democrats, no less than nine such gentlemen were aspiring for the job of Governor...
Last week Mr. Farley also got new means of reducing the Post Office's ocean mail subsidies. From the Panama Canal went an Executive Order, which the President signed there fortnight ago, directing the Postmaster General to hold public hearings on ocean mail contracts and report within six months on the advisability of their modification or cancellation. Since ocean mail services cost the Post Office $26,000,000 last year, and the cost of carrying the ocean mail on a poundage basis would have been only about $3,000,000, the opportunity for a big saving seemed at hand...
Patronage. Resting in bed at San Jose, Jim Farley had to give audience to a number of politicians who could not be kept out. He did not seriously mind. In Washington he seldom walks into the lobby of the Mayflower Hotel, where he lives, without half a dozen men jumping up to wring his hand and say: "Oh, Jim. I want to speak to you a minute about...
Normally the Postmaster General of an administration opposed to the spoils system would be under a severe handicap in the matter of patronage. But Mr. Farley suffers no such disadvantage, thanks to the fertility of the New Deal in producing new agencies and new jobs. In addition to about 75,000 regular Government jobs which were Mr. Farley's to give away, he got about 75,000 more as a result of the AAA, PWA, NRA, HOLC, etc. A little wire-pulling from the Post Office Department was all that was necessary to convince Congress that it would...
While President Roosevelt has been boasting of the non-partisan character of his Administration, Jim Farley has been adroitly staffing the Government with deserving Democrats-and nobody else. He has found, for instance, that he can palm off almost anyone on Attorney General Cummings but that Relief Administrator Hopkins is excessively choosey about who goes on his payroll. Despite Washington mutterings at the potentialities of scandal, the Farley appointments have been no better, no worse than those of preceding Republican administrations. Human nature being what it is. Mr. Farley has made isolated mistakes but by & large the new Democratic jobholders...