Word: farleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Farley, daughter of Jim, made a white-tulle-and-camellia debut at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria. In the receiving line, she accompanied herself by humming They're Either Too Young Or Too Old, did much of her handshaking with such oldsters as Morton Downey, Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Westbrook Pegler, Elsa Maxwell, William Bullitt...
...Flak caught another B-26 over the same target, killed the pilot. His body fell forward and threw the ship out of control. The copilot, Flight Officer Stanley B. Farley Jr., lifted the pilot off the controls and pulled the plane out of a spin. The gunners were all wounded, but they crawled forward and dragged the pilot's body out of Farley's way. He had never landed a B26, a plane so "hot" on landing that many experienced pilots do not like to fly it. But Farley brought his B-26 in gently, drifting...
...Senators' anger arose with the appearance of Pearson's Washington Merry-Go-Round column headlined: GILLETTE IS CHOSEN BY FARLEY TO BEAT ROOSEVELT IN 1944. The burden of Pearson's story was that James A. Farley had met with anti-Fourth Term Senators (including Missouri's Bennett Clark, Georgia's Walter George, Virginia's Harry F. Byrd, et al.) to choose a candidate to win the Democratic nomination from Franklin Roosevelt in 1944. The man they settled on, said Pearson, was Iowa's handsome, white-thatched Senator Guy M. Gillette...
According to the Senators, what really happened was that Gillette gave a luncheon for the Senators and Mr. Farley. They pondered ways of beating a Fourth Term nomination for the President, but neither discussed nor chose a candidate to do the wished-for scuttling. The keyhole eye of Columnist Pearson was evidently nearsighted - again...
...Relations with politicians, airline heads and people who want something are the forte of fast-minded, diplomatic Harllee Branch, 63, a onetime Washington correspondent of the Atlanta Journal, who worked with Jim Farley in the 1932 campaign, later became Assistant Postmaster General in charge of air mail...