Word: farleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hour of voting drew close. Mead's backers put on the last ounce of pressure. There was a sudden scurry among the potent men behind the platform; Jim Farley rushed up to the stage, button holed Governor Lehman, took him back to the hotel kitchen. There, away from the turmoil, they conferred for ten minutes. Farley bustled into more conferences, with his friend Frank Kelly, with his enemy Ed Flynn. For the first time, Big Jim looked worried...
...White House-Mead forces had won a point: all delegates must stand up to answer the roll call individually, to put their votes on the record. Henceforth it would be history how they had stood in the fight between Farley and Roosevelt. Now Jim Farley's men would face the final, complete test of loyalty...
...Farley was once again the supreme Democratic boss of New York (and its 94 delegates to national conventions). Farley's Bennett might lose in November. Certainly he faced a stiff fight with aggressive Republican Thomas Dewey (see p. 22). But after the nomination, Jim Farley received more handshakes than Bennett himself. And from all parts of the country telegrams of congratulations from Democratic leaders poured in to the man who had licked Franklin Roosevelt...
...portent came last week, when the President fought with his onetime friend Jim Farley for control of New York's 94 delegates to the Democratic National Convention (see p. 20), Another, perhaps more significant, had passed unnoticed except by the close observers: into an office in the new wing of the White House, as one of the "anonymous assistants," had moved swarthy, soft-voiced David K. Niles, political tipster and fixer extraordinary, a smooth operator who wangled $500,000 from the United Mine Workers for the 1936 Democratic war chest and who was undercover man for the New Deal...
...York's little American Labor Party, given the cut direct by Jim Farley's Democrats (see above), were not merely miffed but mad. For months they had attacked Farley and his candidate, John Bennett, as threats to labor and to Roosevelt. Pinkos had tried to smear Bennett as a Fascist by labeling him pro-Franco in the Spanish Civil...