Word: farleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doing so, Franklin Roosevelt undercut one of his most loyal friends and party advisers: Boss Edward J. Flynn, Jim Farley's successor as chairman of the Democratic National Committee. It was Boss Flynn who helped pick Brooklyn's District Attorney William O'Dwyer as a likely candidate to run against Mayor LaGuardia (TIME, July 28). Said a White House correspondent: "Mr. President, there have been reports . . . that Mr. Flynn would resign if you supported Mayor LaGuardia." The President's smile vanished. He looked hard at the reporter. Then he answered curtly that he did not think...
...personally no Tammanyite, opened his campaign, like a devout boxer who crosses himself before the bell rings, by formally disowning Tammany (see col. j). Unfortunately all his powerful friends looked like Tammany to many a New York City voter: Alfred E. Smith, Bosses Ed Flynn and Frank Kelly, Jim Farley, Christy Sullivan (the nominal Tammany leader). Certainly Tammany considered O'Dwyer its candidate. O'Dwyer tried to take the war issue out of the campaign by seconding the President's foreign policy. But to his ranks flocked Coughlinites, Bundsters, Isolationists, America-Firsters, anti-Semites, Roosevelt-haters...
...scrimmage between the first and second teams, Harlow used Yardlings Pete Garland and Don Richards as Team B ends since injured Bull Barnes and Jack Farley have not recovered enough for contact work...
...effort to bolster his end squad, which at the present time is weakened by the enforced inactivity of Bull Barnes, Loren MacKinney's understudy, and Johnny Farley, Harlow has shifted two of his tackles out to the flank position. Johnny Shattuck, a 200 pounder, and Bob Fisher both tried out at end yesterday instead of playing their usual tackle positions...
Possibly Harlow was influenced in his move by the showing of Nelson and Kucznski, Penn's huge ends, who kept the Crimson hemmed in all last Saturday. At any rate Shattuck and Fisher will probably stay on the flanks at least until Barnes and Farley are ready for action again...