Word: farleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...burning Hopkins mind, the President found a quality and a kinship which he found in no other human being. Alone among the men around The Man, Harry Hopkins can (but does not) boast that he is both trusted and used without stint. His latest use: to supplant Jim Farley, command the axmen realigning the Democratic Party for the Third Term campaign and thereafter...
Moley, Rex Tugwell, Jim Farley, John Hanes, et al.) were some of greater stature than the departed Assistant Secretary of War. But among them was none more loyal at the start, more bitter at the finish...
...Bill of Rights not in some way supervised or directed is the art of barbershop singing. . . ." Local chapters of the S. P. E. B. S. Q. S. A. mushroomed all over the country, now number some 200. Among the 2,000 members: Major Bowes, Groucho Marx, Jim Farley, Bing Crosby, five Southwestern Governors...
Said James Aloysius Farley, 52, the brickmaker's boy from Grassy Point, N. Y.: now that he was assured that the Democratic Convention had been democratic, now that the delegates' will had been registered, he moved that the rules be suspended and Mr. Roosevelt nominated "by acclamation." The great hall shook with the roar for big Jim. "Chip" ("Chippie" to some of his acquaintances) Robert ostentatiously threw his arms around Farley, waving to the photographers to get the picture. To the tune of When Irish Eyes Are Smiling, the convention adjourned...
Said Delegate Durbin: "The only thing I don't like in Chicago is the Tribune and the Hearst newspapers." There were cheers and boos. "For God's sake, Mr. President, if you are listening in, let's have someone like Jim Farley! . . ." Then Rebel Durbin came to his point: "I have a candidate. I nominate Mr. Bascom Timmons of Texas...