Word: farleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rose John J. ("Silent John") Bennett Jr., Attorney General of New York State, to make his first majrar political speech in the dingdong struggle over the Democratic nomination for the Governorship of New York. James Aloysius Farley had kept his man Bennett quiet and withdrawn from the battlefield. This stratagem had two advantages: 1) it kept Silent John from making any mistakes; 2) it left Big Jim free to smite hip & thigh the candidacy of Senator James M. Mead, the man of Franklin Roosevelt...
Thirty years ago the phrase "Gentleman Jim has won again" meant a pugilist named Corbett. Today it refers to a cagey politician whose last name is Farley. For, in the New York Democratic Convention yesterday, Jim's man won the nomination for Governor hands down. The victory of Attorney General John J. Bennett over Senator James A. Mead sets off a chain of consequences that may tie the political structure of the country into its worst tangle in several decades. Most important of all, it forces a wartime President into the dangerous game of playing politics within his own party...
...most striking implications are those affecting the line-up for the spotlights of 1944. President Roosevelt was an open supporter of Senator Mead; he now finds his leadership flatly repudiated. Today the New York machine belongs to Jim Farley and will be his sole property until well after the next Democratic National Convention. Any man controlling the New York bloc of delegates would carry weight in such a gathering, and Farley, with more friends than any other man since Mark Hanna, may find himself in complete control. The combination of a Roosevelt-hating Farley and a Labor-baiting Southern bloc...
...Farley knew that he was through if he lost this battle. His break with the President was now final and complete; perhaps he had paid his last visit to the White House unless he could force his way back by sheer weight of political power...
...week's end, with the important convention but a few days off, Farley seemed in a less pugnacious mood. He called Franklin Roosevelt "the beacon of hope of civilization"; he indicated, in true party fashion, that he would support Jim Mead if Mead got the nomination. Observers wondered whether Jim Farley was getting ready to toss in the towel or was just seeming to relax before throwing a crushing punch...