Word: farleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pains. In an effort to by-pass the imponderables of intraparty protocol, the state committee had selected a dais long enough only to seat the guest of honor, three Cabinet members, four state party committeemen, and sundry divines. Seated on the indiscriminate floor were such party stalwarts as Jim Farley, ex-Senator James Mead, the party's 1946 candidate for governor, ex-Governor Herbert Lehman, 1946 candidate for senator...
...other on the technology of the West. His activities toward this end take two very different forms: he writes erudite books on social philosophy and he operates a political machine that extends from Chiang Kai-shek's ear down to the wards and villages. If James Aloysius Farley in the New Deal's turbulent heyday had attempted to bring up to date the philosophy of John Locke, the U.S. would have a better precedent for understanding Chen Li-fu. (Chen's best-known book Life-subtitle, Vitaism-has had a sensational sale in China: 250,000 copies...
...March 17, 1947 issue of TIME, there appears under the heading of "Aviation" an article dealing with the Civil Aeronautics Board and its members. The article describes me as a "onetime Washington correspondent . . . Second Assistant Postmaster General in charge of air mail under Jim Farley (his specialty: political chores...
...Aeronautics, is a top man. Oswald Ryan, 58, another Harvard lawyer and one of the original members of the board, is CAB's legalist, steady, if not brilliant. Harllee Branch, 67, a onetime Washington correspondent, was Second Assistant Postmaster General in charge of air mail under Jim Farley (his specialty: political chores). But Josh Lee, 55, onetime Bible-spouting Senator from Oklahoma, has not shone as an aviation expert...
...distributions are made under the personal supervision of representatives of World Student Relief and are channeled through the W.S.R. Geneva Office. In the four countries chosen by your committee, the staff representatives are; K. Z. Li, Shangai; Howard Reed, Athens; Phyllis Farley, Warsaw; and M. Andrey, Vienna...