Word: farleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months on end the President had said little and that little sometimes snappishly. What would he want to say now, when Big Jim Farley had soundly, roundly trounced him in the struggle to nominate the Democratic candidate for the New York Governorship...
This time there was no harmony, no happy chitchat. Big Jim Farley, who had never come away from such a dinner the loser, was dead set on Attorney General John J. ("Jack") Bennett. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President and leader of the Democratic Party, was dead set on Senator James M. Mead. Farley had the votes-promised by men who never yet broke a promise to Big Jim. The White House had the influence, the pressure, the big stick that local politicos hate to stand against...
Finally Governor Lehman played his last desperate trump against Jim Farley's majority of votes. He had a letter from Franklin Roosevelt suggesting a way out: Mead and Bennett would both withdraw, a dark horse would be named, party harmony would be saved...
...Farley, who teethed on such offers, knew that such a peace was the peace of political death for him. He shook his head. The dinner broke up. Now it was up to delegates, pulled one way by loyalty to Big Jim, pushed another by White House pressure...
Next day Big Jim Farley, his genial, pink face solemn with the importance of the moment, called the press in to bear witness to a prophecy not lightly made...