Word: farleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Down in No'th Ca'lina, which some unkind person once called a valley of self-consciousness between two mountains of conceit (Virginia and South Carolina), they appreciate a politician. When Jim Farley stopped off at Charlotte's Southern Railway station one day last week, the mayor gave Democratic Chairman Farley the city's key, Charlotte's postmen gave Postmaster General Farley a leather traveling bag and the Elks gave Elk Farley a hat which unfortunately proved to be a couple of sizes too small for his bald head...
That night, at the Robert E. Lee Hotel in Winston-Salem, Jim Farley gave the people of No'th Ca'lina and the nation something to talk about-his first personal political speech since he left the New York State Legislature 17 years ago. Jim Farley's 7¼-size hat was in the ring. But which ring? Was Jim Farley a candidate for the Presidency, the Vice-Presidency, or what...
...Farley is as practical a politician as ever whispered. He is also a Roman Catholic. Dopesters guessed that Jim would gladly yield the Presidency to 68-year-old Cordell Hull, but would dearly love to be Vice President. And Jim's friends think the No. 2 job is not beyond a Catholic's reach. But Jim Farley knows that no man ever got the Vice-Presidency by running for it. So Jim's first campaign speech sounded as if he was shooting for the moon and hoping to hit at least the broad side of the barn...
...Industry Farley was as temperate as a zephyr, roared like a sucking dove: "I have no sympathy with the theory that government and industry are naturally arrayed in hostile camps...
Last week the Maritime Commission permitted Shipper Farley, now executive committee chairman of unsubsidized American-Hawaiian Steamship Co., to put his lesson into practice. For a fat $1,600,000, he sold four of his tired old (20-21 years) tubs to Great Britain, which needs cargo ships to transport war supplies. This gave Mr. Farley cash in the bank with which to begin replacing his fleet of 34 ships (average age: 23 years), if he wants to. His four old ships, out of service until the war boom, netted him the fancy price...