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...Including governors of seven states, 17 university presidents, Henry L. Stimson, Harold Stassen, Jim Farley, Joseph C. Grew, Banker A. P. Giannini, Author John P. Marquand, the Right Rev. William T. Manning (retired Episcopal Bishop of New York), ex-G.I. Cartoonist Bill Mauldin (see PRESS), and Historian James Truslow Adams...
...Collier's last week, Big Jim Farley swung into a second lap of his "Why I Broke With Roosevelt" series with recollections of some candid talks he had had with F.D.R. about fellow Democrats...
...When Majority Leader Joe Robinson died, Roosevelt assured Farley that there would be no White House intervention in the fight between Mississippi's Pat Harrison and Kentucky's "Dear Alben" Barkley for Robinson's job. On the way to Arkansas for the funeral, Farley duly told both men what Roosevelt had said...
After the funeral, he returned to Washington and his Mayflower Hotel apartment. Sometime after midnight the phone rang. Farley continued...
...first real break in "principle" came with Roosevelt's "disastrous attempt to purge the Democratic Party of those who had opposed his will." Said Farley: "I could not and did not go along with him. . . . I believe that deep down inside, he never forgave me for putting party welfare above the personal allegiance he considered...