Word: farleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Franklin Roosevelt's particular room-the place where he reads, works, ponders, fondles his blue-bound naval scrapbooks, welcomes intimate friends for intimate talks. One afternoon last week, the President and a friend had a long talk in the little study. The friend was James Aloysius Farley...
More than friends, they were partners in as strange and binding a relationship as any in U. S. political history. Franklin Roosevelt of the baronial Hudson Valley, of Groton, Harvard, the Wilson sub-Cabinet, was the Democratic candidate for Vice President in 1920 when he first met Jim Farley, the Irish Catholic, grubbing young politico from plebeian Grassy Point across the Hudson and downstream. Mr. Roosevelt does not remember that meeting; it was at a crowded reception in Manhattan. Jim Farley does, in every detail, down to what his bride said, and the feel of his palm in Franklin Roosevelt...
...Farley remembers the years: 1928, when he managed Franklin Roosevelt's first campaign for the Governorship of New York; 1930 and immediately thereafter, when Tammany's Farley and a few discerning others began to think that their Governor might be a President; and the Governor's casual okay when Jim Farley put out the first Presidential feelers; 1932, and the cross-continent marathon of Farley handshaking, letter writing, spade work which preceded Mr. Roosevelt's nomination at Chicago...
Then the years in Washington. Postmaster General and Democratic Chairman James A. Farley went deep into debt (on his $15,000-a-year salary), took many a rap while working as hard and loyally as ever for "The Boss." But also, in the politician's simple conviction that The Party is everything, he worked for the Democratic Party. Lately he had also worked for himself, on the thrilling but consistent premise that perhaps he might be his Party's next instrument in the White House...
Months of Indecision. Last week Jim Farley all but said that the Party was in a hell of a shape in a hell of a year. The man who had put it in its condition was Franklin Roosevelt, to whom The Party is merely a means to a larger end. Mounting strain had become almost intolerable. It was caused by an unanswered question: Was Franklin Roosevelt going to run for a Third Term...