Word: farleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Political experts long since revised the wheeze, "As Maine Goes, So Goes the Nation." (James A. Farley's revision: "As Maine Goes, So Goes Vermont.") This year, scandal in the State House involving Republican Controller William A. Runnells spread a haze in the sky. The personal popularity of Louis Jefferson Brann, former Democratic Governor, candidate for U. S. Senator, also made Republican leaders reluctant to have the Maine vote used as an augury of what will happen in November in the rest of the country. Nevertheless young Oren Root Jr., head of the Associated Willkie Clubs, marched...
Editorial content, compiled by Publicity Chief Charles Michelson, included a foreword by ex-National Chairman James A. Farley, a biography of Henry Wallace, essays on phases of the New Deal, the President's acceptance speech. Asked about the origin of The Book, which has burgeoned under many titles for almost 100 years, Editor Michelson snorted: "It's automatic, like the Jackson Day Dinner...
...Wendell. Willkie had had as much political experience and acquaintance as Professional Franklin Roosevelt, he might have got some of the strings of organization into his own hands. Lacking it, he badly needed an equivalent of Franklin Roosevelt's Man Farley...
...backslapper, he knows first names and how to handle district leaders. He runs his machine by persuasion and tact. If there is any man who can do for the Republican Presidential candidate what James A. Farley did for Franklin Roosevelt, it is Joe Martin. Roosevelt's Ed Flynn is an earthy politician whose experience is highly practical but largely limited to The Bronx...
Martin's disadvantage is that Martin starts the race with a creaking, long inactive machine, while Flynn inherited a racer, not only in working order but tuned up for eight years by Master Mechanic Farley...