Word: farleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Farley, once chairman of the New York State Athletic Commission, knows crowds love a fighter who stays in there swinging. Last week Jim Farley, waging a hot & heavy fight to make John J. Bennett the Democratic candidate for Governor of New York, never once stopped punching. Every day he aimed a new blow at Franklin Roosevelt's candidate, tall, toothy Senator Jim Mead...
...First Farley charged that Senator Mead, a 100% backer of Franklin Roosevelt's foreign policies on his Senate voting record, was in fact an isolationist. (He dug up a 1941 speech in which earnest Senator Mead said the U.S. must not become "the tool for guaranteeing any particular status...
...this Jim Mead remained silent. Silent too was Farley's John Bennett, the forgotten man of the campaign. The only audible sounds came from Farley-and from Franklin Roosevelt, who once more took a little time out from the war to comment at a crowded press conference: "If Jim Mead's an isolationist...
...Franklin Roosevelt knew that the election next November in the most populous State in the Union is of great concern to the Party which he heads-and never forgets that he heads. Tom Dewey, the apparent Republican nominee, is busily at work. And on the Democratic side crafty Jim Farley had commitments from 51 out of 62 county delegations for his man, Attorney General John J. Bennett Jr. Mr. Roosevelt did not think John Bennett was the man to beat Tom Dewey. He wanted the hottest candidate he could get. Mead seemed to fill the bill. And also at stake...
...Roosevelt plump for Mead meant a battle with Jim Farley, once his closest political friend. It meant kicking the pins from under John Bennett, once a Roosevelt protégé. And big, bald, genial Jim Farley was determined to make this a real fight. After all, he had the delegates (up to now). Within an hour after Jim Mead announced his candidacy, Jim Farley issued a bone-bruising statement. He cited nine occasions on which Jim Mead had said he did not want to be Governor of New York; he said Jim Mead was "scared" of the job, said...