Word: farleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Underneath the Roses. Up at 6 a.m. the next morning, he drove the seven miles to his office in the Federal Court Building in Kansas City. By now everybody knew that Harry Truman was back. Callers streamed into the large reception room, sat staring at pictures of Jim Farley, John Garner, and Garner and Truman, while they waited to pump the Senator's hand. All afternoon he kept jumping up to answer the telephone in the next-door office of Federal Judge John Caskie Collet. There is no telephone in the Truman office-the Senator says...
...vote: Roosevelt, 1,086; Byrd, 89; James A. Farley...
Novosibirsk Secretary of the Communist Party is tough, wiry, 44-year-old Mikhail Kulagin. He looks and acts like a cross between Jimmy Cagney and a Rotary greeter. Politically, he is a sort of Russian Jim Farley, slapping backs, shaking hands. Everyone knows him, wants a private word with him. He sent regards to his old pals, Hank Wallace and Don Nelson, who met him during their travels in Russia...
...always led to pratfalls. His readers loved it. People who recognized a fellow spirit, people who wanted to mother and protect him, wrote to him by the hundred. By 1940 he probably knew more people at firsthand or by mail than any man, with the possible exception of Jim Farley, in the U.S. And he had become a master of the art of putting people at their ease and drawing them out, observing and remembering the significant detail, and reporting his findings in vivid, folksy, readable language. However little he himself may have suspected it, he was ready...
...little boy whom neighbors of the Spruances in Indianapolis remember as "a sweet, lovely, gentle baby and so noncombative." What other little boys thought of such a model is not recorded. As a boy the only apparent trouble young Spruance ever gave anyone was falling into a well. Mary Farley, an Irish cook, saved him for history...