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...always led to pratfalls. His readers loved it. People who recognized a fellow spirit, people who wanted to mother and protect him, wrote to him by the hundred. By 1940 he probably knew more people at firsthand or by mail than any man, with the possible exception of Jim Farley, in the U.S. And he had become a master of the art of putting people at their ease and drawing them out, observing and remembering the significant detail, and reporting his findings in vivid, folksy, readable language. However little he himself may have suspected it, he was ready...
...little boy whom neighbors of the Spruances in Indianapolis remember as "a sweet, lovely, gentle baby and so noncombative." What other little boys thought of such a model is not recorded. As a boy the only apparent trouble young Spruance ever gave anyone was falling into a well. Mary Farley, an Irish cook, saved him for history...
...Farley dotted the last i and crossed the final t of his bill of divorcement from Franklin Roosevelt: he quit as chairman of the New York State Democratic Committee, a post he had held for 14 years. To newsmen summoned to his office, he handed a typewritten statement summing up his love of politics, his belief in party regularity, and his undisguised unwillingness to support Term IV. Said...
...newsman asked: would he continue to be interested in politics? Replied Jim Farley: "It would be only natural...
...further plans Jim Farley refused to discuss. Then he packed his briefcase and, in a new straw hat, posed for pictures leaving the office for the last time (see cut). Next day he was off on a three-week business trip to Mexico as board chairman of Coca-Cola Export Corp...