Word: farleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Farley dotted the last i and crossed the final t of his bill of divorcement from Franklin Roosevelt: he quit as chairman of the New York State Democratic Committee, a post he had held for 14 years. To newsmen summoned to his office, he handed a typewritten statement summing up his love of politics, his belief in party regularity, and his undisguised unwillingness to support Term IV. Said...
...newsman asked: would he continue to be interested in politics? Replied Jim Farley: "It would be only natural...
...further plans Jim Farley refused to discuss. Then he packed his briefcase and, in a new straw hat, posed for pictures leaving the office for the last time (see cut). Next day he was off on a three-week business trip to Mexico as board chairman of Coca-Cola Export Corp...
James Aloysius Farley, speaking in and of Jersey City's Journal Square, whence Boss Frank Hague's brass-buttoned, blue-coated cossacks were once wont to chase orators who came there with the delusion that the whole U.S. enjoys free speech, all but busted his tongue through his cheek: "History is bound to note this spot as one of the battlegrounds where free speech was firmly established, together with the American way of life...
...Purple Heart (Dana Andrews, Farley Granger, Sam Levene, John Craven; TIME, March...