Word: farleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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James Aloysius Farley. Big Jim, 51, 6 ft. 2 in., 215 Ib. of partisan good will, "the man who has done most for Grassy Point, New York" (where he was born), is also the man who has done most for Franklin Roosevelt. Last week Big Jim, still living down his unearned reputation as an out-&-out politician and therefore a low fellow, traveled through Midwest, Border and Southern towns, trying to do for himself in a quiet way what he did so clamorously for his boss. On Mule Day in Columbia, Tenn., Big Jim played Titania to a mule, Prince...
Everybody knew what Jim Farley thought of The Boss. But what Mr. Roosevelt thought of Big Jim all these years was clear to everybody but Jim. That began to clear up too one day last spring, when Big Jim. moving with the nervous alertness of a hurrying cat, strode into the White House to report to Mr. Roosevelt. Just back from a 13-State, 7,500-mile trip, surveying Democratic fences, Jim Farley had a lot to tell. One thing: nomination for Term III would be easy, election might be tough...
Though Mr. Farley grinned a flashbulb grin as he left the White House, he left behind a chilly Administration silence. Something had changed in the relationship of Handyman Farley and Boss Roosevelt. Thereafter Jim Farley's visits to the White House were infrequent. Last July he went to Hyde Park for a long afternoon's chat with his boss. No one knew exactly what was said, but again something had changed...
...Washington Post, Roosevelt-Biographer Ernest K. Lindley reported that in a conversation with a Democratic elder, Mr. Roosevelt said: 1) he would not run for Term III unless the Germans overran England; 2) Secretary of State Cordell Hull was his candidate, was safe, could be elected; 3) Jim Farley was unacceptable as a Vice-Presidential nominee because some people might think the Democrats "were using Cordell Hull as a stalking horse for the Pope" (TIME, March...
...ballot that confronted Wisconsin voters was a complex maze. For Roosevelt there were two slates: one an anti-Hoover-Democrat group headed by Gustave Keller, Appleton lawyer, chummy with La Folletteers; one a "Roosevelt-Farley" ticket, headed by Charles E. Broughton, Sheboygan politician, made up of machine Democrats. For John Nance Garner was a slate bossed by John J. Slocum, Assembly clerk, expected to attract many an anti-Term III voter who would rather protest a Roosevelt re-election than choose between Messrs. Dewey and Vandenberg...