Word: farleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Committee, facing a choice of San Francisco, Philadelphia, Houston or Chicago for its forthcoming National Convention, did not debate long before deciding on Chicago again. In the Willard Hotel the committee heard a great deal of Third Term talk in the lobby (but none on the floor) ; heard Chairman Farley say a pleasant word for Candidate Garner; talked, chatted, speculated, while members plumped for their cities and Chairman Farley blasted the no-program Republicans...
...crass seduction distinguished Philadelphia's appeal, as five orators on-&-onned, pledged good weather (a perilous undertaking, even if the convention date had been set), displayed a certified check for $125.000. Sneered Philadelphian Kelly of Chicagoan Kelly's righteous appeal, "I can't imagine Jim Farley thinking there is anything indecent about $125,000." and promised that delegates would have a good time, said that "no place will be closed at four o'clock, not even Independence Hall...
...Marans (El.) 26 McSweeney (Kir.) 25 Roberts (Kirk.) 24 Eisenstein (Low.) 22 Kothe (Ad.) 20 Tonkonow (Low.) 20 Hockey Standing Won Lost Leverett 3 0 Winthrop 3 0 Dudley 3 1 Adams 2 1 Dunster 2 2 Lowell 1 3 Eliot 1 3 Kirkland 0 5 Leading Scorers Farley (Dun.) 8 Anderson (Ad.) 6 Regan (Dud.) 6 Whitaker (Dud.) 6 Blotner (Low.) 5 LaCroix (Win.) 5 Ayers (Dun.) 4 Eaton (Ad.) 4 Griffith (Kir.) 4 Swimming Won Lost Eliot 4 0 Kirkland 4 0 Lowell 3 1 Adams 3 3 Winthrop 2 2 Leverett 1 3 Dunster 1 5 Dudley...
...Farley on Agriculture wanted more "basic research" (i.e., new inventions), to absorb more agricultural workers: "In the decade just preceding the high days of 1929 seventeen million young people between 15 and 30 years of age left the farms and found employment in the towns. But for the past ten years rural population has been damming up in rural districts." He also boosted a basic crop: "We should never forget that rural districts constitute the great breeding ground of America. Yet the farmer today has lost the market for his greatest of all crops -his baby crop...
...with the issue of the welfare of my Party, on the one hand, or the welfare of my country on the other, that issue has already been decided. I love my country better than I love the Democratic Party." This kind of talk sounded very different from the Jim Farley who said of Franklin Roosevelt three years ago: "While the breath in my body lingers, I will try to assist him in all he does." From Washington came stories that Jim had been saying he-and not the President-would control New York's 1940 delegation...