Word: farleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These had been Mr. Willkie's Farley, Moley, Frankfurter, Rosenman, Howe, Hull, Wallace, Woodin and Tugwell; his braintrust and his backers, working for him-at least at first-against his will. Neither Davenport nor Root knew anything practical about winning votes and influencing people, but they did have faith, and it nearly burned them...
Democrats. Most Democratic hopefuls, numbed by the President's complete command of the 1940 nomination, contented themselves with bumbling. John Garner said nothing, mourned the ups & downs of Washington's ball club. Paul McNutt rolled back from a national tour still beating a lonesome drum. Jim Farley shook postmasters' hands. Burton K. Wheeler took a die-hard stand for Isolation. Cordell Hull, as usual, sawed wood...
President Roosevelt was the favorite Democratic candidate, bagging 61 percent of the votes. Hull got 24 percent, Garner received 4 1/2 percent and the remaining 10 percent of the votes went to McNutt, Wheeler, Jackson, and Farley...
Postmaster Farley's placing Dr. Long's likeness upon a postage stamp in honor of his having been the "discoverer" of ether leads to a warranted discussion of what the word "discovery" means. As to this, Professor John Ware of Harvard Medical School in a letter dated April 16, 1861 to Dr. Charles Jackson (another claimant) said: "The discovery of the fact that the state of anesthesia is a safe one and thus available in practice is due to Morton. James Watt did not originate the steam engine. George Stephenson did not first introduce the railway...
...certain that the Convention, if left to its own devices, would nominate Mr. Hull as the only candidate acceptable to all factions, and as the only candidate certain to attract Republican voters. ¶It was not yet clear whether the Convention would pay James A. Farley's bill For Services Rendered by offering him the Vice-Presidential nomination. ¶ It appeared certain that neither New York's Robert H. Jackson nor Indiana...