Word: farleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...future of the Republican Party was quite possibly at stake. Politicians watched each little development as soldiers watched the news from Libya. The cast of characters was of the highest political stature: Franklin Roosevelt, Wendell Willkie, Herbert Hoover, Thomas E. Dewey, Alf Landon, Charles L. McNary, James A. Farley, Herbert H. Lehman, Joe Martin, and on down to a host of others...
...first time in 14 months, Franklin Roosevelt and his onetime best friend had a heart-to-heart talk last week. James Aloysius Farley dropped in for lunch. But it was hardly a sentimental reunion. Cooking at the White House were some very practical New York State politics. Observers were ready to predict, when Farley came out, that the next Governor of New York was all but elected. The choice: John James Bennett Jr., the State's Attorney General, an unknown to the U.S. at large...
Franklin Roosevelt was reported to have had other ideas in the beginning. But ever since Governor Lehman said flatly that he could not possibly be drafted to run for a fifth term, Bennett has been the choice of Jim Farley and of a strong bloc of Democratic State leaders. Said Farley to newsmen after his White House lunch: "I am satisfied that there will be no difficulty. . . ." The inference: Mr. Roosevelt had given...
...colorless, likable, efficient. He has earned the loyalties of friends; smart and ambitious (for six years he has yearned to be Governor), he has visited every city and hamlet in the State during his five campaigns, probably knows more voters than anyone but his gregarious mentor, Jim Farley himself...
...following students received certificates for completion of the Harvard course in Naval Science and Tactics, and will receive their commissions later: Eliot Farley, Jr., Wellesley; Rochester H. Rogers, Jr., Rochester, N. Y.; Henry B. Stone, Providence, R. I.; and Gilbert F. Whittemore, Roslindale...