Word: farleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blitz Tactics. One non-caller was James Aloysius Farley. Genial Jim had made a White House call early in June, had indicated that the President had approved Jim Farley's man for Governor: mild, blameless Attorney General John J. Bennett Jr. By last week 51 of the 62 county organizations, said Farley, were committed to Bennett...
Then came the White House blow-off Jim Farley had prepared against. Senator Wagner, on leaving the Executive Mansion, announced that the President would back any "liberal" candidate. Next day Tammany Leader Kennedy amended the definition: Franklin Roosevelt would back any liberal who had backed the Roosevelt foreign policy 100% before Pearl Harbor...
...Unperturbed, Jim Farley smoothly said that the man who fit those requirements was, of course, John Bennett. Ed Flynn, hedging, declared that the description could cover many men: Bennett or New Deal Senator James M. Mead -even Al Smith. But Smith quickly eliminated himself; "I'm too old," said...
...only Democrat who could get American Labor Party support, needed to beat Tom Dewey. Jim Mead, with four secure years in the Senate ahead of him, and with at least 50 friends among the 51 bosses committed to Bennett, was cagey. He craftily named his own candidate: Jim Farley...
...Foxy Mr. Farley. They could point to sly, cunning Jim Farley, the political prophet, who carefully, genially went about New York State encouraging Republicans to run Tom Dewey. The very ice water in Jim Farley's veins warmed up at the thought of Dewey, who has no appeal to the interventionist majority of New York, no appeal to labor and liberal groups, and who is personally disliked by many of the hardheaded local bosses who are perforce supporting him. The thought of such a candidate, with weathervane views on all important matters, running against his own handpicked Democrat, John...