Word: farleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harry Truman heard a lot of talk about himself. In a letter to 7,500 Republicans, National Chairman Carroll Reece accused the President of "intentional failure" to give Congress a comprehensive legislative program in his State of the Union Message. On Mutual's Meet the Press program, Jim Farley stated that Harry Truman was dead political timber. Oregon's Republican Senator Wayne Morse thought just the opposite. Said he: the President "is slugging right now, and he has the Republicans on the defensive...
Meet the Press (Fri. 10:30 p.m., Mutual). A deskful of newsmen pop political questions at James A. Farley...
...title of Secretary to the University. New England-born David M. Little has been a close friend of Jim Conant's since Shop Club days, once taught English at Harvard and is now Master of Adams House (one of the seven residences for upperclassmen). He has a Jim Farley memory for faces, dates & places, and knows more alumni by their first names than any other man alive...
...Meadmen who offered him the convention chairmanship for his support, Jim Farley gave a curt no. New York City's Mayor William O'Dwyer said yes. So did Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt to an invitation to be the convention keynoter. If the LaGuardia boom held up, the convention at Albany on Sept. 3 would probably touch off some fancy fireworks...
...Republicans had no such inner pains. They felt that Tom Dewey's excellent record as Governor (income taxes cut by half, a $500,000,000 surplus, a rent-control act, an anti-discrimination law, etc.) made him even stronger than in 1942. Then he gave Jim Farley's John J. Bennett a terrific trouncing (and took about 40% of the New York City vote). Jim Mead scared the GOPsters not one bit; and until last week it did not seem to matter much whom Tom Dewey picked to run for the Senate. The LaGuardia boom ripped apart their...