Word: farleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...platform, the National Committee Secretary, Lawrence Wood ("Chip") Robert Jr., conspicuously avoided Big Jim Farley, his chief for four years. The demonstration ground mechanically on, Mr. Garry's screams cross-hatching the other roars into a welter of crazy sound...
...operator lowered the microphone, and Glass's hoarse whisper filled the stadium: ". . . An incomparable Democrat ... a man on whose word every human being can always rely. . . . Thomas Jefferson. . . . Since I have been sitting on this platform I have had two anonymous communications objecting to Jim Farley because he is a Catholic...
...Farley and Carter Glass came a genuine ovation, short and loud, but mixed with booing. Loyally the Farley-men stood up, waved banners. But Mayor Kelly's organist was silent. The band forgot to play. In a moment the Farley "parade" was over...
...hour and ten minutes later, at 1:38 a.m., Franklin Roosevelt had been nominated by the Democratic Party for a third term-it was a first time in U. S. history. The vote: Roosevelt 946½, Farley 72½, Garner 61, Tydings 9½. (In the Senate Office Building John Nance Garner stayed incommunicado for a week...
...eyes. No one believed John Garner would ever come back.) In the closing moments Texas' Sam Rayburn had withdrawn Garner's name, Senator Tydings had withdrawn his own name in a statement that was like the slap of a barber's cold towel, and big Jim Farley asked to be permitted to make a statement "without interruption...