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...Club playing chess and dominoes with his newspaper cronies. He held no man in awe. Once Franklin Roosevelt greeted reporters with the remark that there was no news "except that Charley Michelson needs a haircut." Snapped Michelson: "Somebody's got to economize around here." Once he told Jim Farley: "Jim, you're the most honest man alive. You wouldn't steal anything-except an election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAPITAL: The Ghost | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

Last week the dead G.I.s got a living memorial. Ex-U.S. Ambassador to Belgium Hugh Gibson and a platoon of big names (Herbert Hoover, Jim Farley, General Omar Bradley, Philip Murray, Louella Parsons) began raising $2,000,000 to help rebuild the University of Nijmegen in honor of the 82nd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Living Memorial | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

Married. Ann Ellen Farley, 22, younger daughter of ex-Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley; and Edward John Hickey, 25, apprentice clothier in his father's Detroit store; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 1, 1947 | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

...Farley, ex-Democratic chairman, distributed bitter pills at a Wellesley College anniversary banquet. Because of the "frightful . . . pressure," reported Farley gravely, "I do not believe any woman is physically and emotionally strong enough to serve out a full presidential term...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Oct. 27, 1947 | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

...committee's executive director and a favorite of the C.I.O. Sullivan, they insisted, was the man to rally labor and the party's liberals and left-wingers. But Harry Truman insisted on making his own choice. The appointment of McGrath continued the tradition, begun with Jim Farley, of naming an Irish Catholic as chairman of the Democratic Committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: New Boss | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

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