Word: farleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days; that the impact of the defeat upon the U. S. people would nullify all the rules of a campaign year; that in the lurid light of such an event, ordinary political needs, courtesies, funds, managers, candidates, deals would make little difference; that it was no matter if Jim Farley went, if Jack Garner hunted, fished, sulked, if political hacks carried the Party banner in State races; that with England gone, and the U. S. isolated in a hostile world, the Presidential election could not be close: whoever won was going to win by a landslide-that probably Franklin Roosevelt...
Last week the Democratic Party was a burdensome nuisance to Franklin Roosevelt. Left to himself, Mr. Roosevelt might not have fretted much about finding a successor to James Aloysius Farley. But other Democrats did not share his conviction that Adolf Hitler would have more to do with the November election than the next chairman of the Democratic...
Finally the President chose Boss Edward Joseph Flynn of The Bronx, who said: "I do not hope to equal the record of my predecessor and friend, Jim Farley, but I will do my best...
...Buster Tom Dewey could find on Ed Flynn was the fact that when he was Sheriff of The Bronx (1921-25) one of his deputies was Gangster Arthur ("Dutch Schultz") Flegenheimer (who had much closer connections with Tammany's convicted Jimmy Hines). Last year Flynn learned that Jim Farley wanted to go out of politics and into business because he needed money to pay his debts. Mr. Flynn was heard to say, in great surprise: "Why, in his position he ought to be able to make plenty of money...
Bigwig Democrats have seen something of Ed Flynn at the last three national conventions. But he is a stranger to thousands of local party hacks whom Jim Farley calls by first names...