Word: farleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Ann Ellen Farley, 22, younger daughter of ex-Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley; and Edward John Hickey, 25, apprentice clothier in his father's Detroit store; in Manhattan...
...Farley, ex-Democratic chairman, distributed bitter pills at a Wellesley College anniversary banquet. Because of the "frightful . . . pressure," reported Farley gravely, "I do not believe any woman is physically and emotionally strong enough to serve out a full presidential term...
...committee's executive director and a favorite of the C.I.O. Sullivan, they insisted, was the man to rally labor and the party's liberals and left-wingers. But Harry Truman insisted on making his own choice. The appointment of McGrath continued the tradition, begun with Jim Farley, of naming an Irish Catholic as chairman of the Democratic Committee...
Eleanor Roosevelt finally made public reply, in the Ladies' Home Journal, to Jim Farley's public charge, in Collier's, that the Parleys had got a moderately cool shoulder in White House social life. Wrote the ex-First Lady: "Unwittingly in some way I ... seem to have hurt both Mr. and Mrs. Farley. For that I am genuinely sorry . . . but I feel I never treated them any differently. . . ." Being a member of the Cabinet, observed Mrs. Roosevelt, implied that one was considered "a man of parts." She pursued sweetly: "Mr. Farley failed to understand this. His tremendous...
Then came what to Farley was "the final shock." Roosevelt said: "By the way, Jim, the family is not going to the convention. Undoubtedly I will accept the nomination by radio and will arrange to talk to the delegates before they leave the convention hall after the nomination...