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...similarities between Jim Farley and Bob Hannegan are marked. Both are Irish Catholics, both started in politics as striplings, both have a great love of sports. They think that politicking is the greatest fun on earth, and that anyone who isn't a Democrat is incurably benighted. Last week Democrats, casting about for a new national chairman to replace Postmaster General Frank Walker, thought that in Bob Hannegan they had found a second Farley. This week Bob Hannegan will resign as U.S. Commissioner of Internal Revenue (a job he has held only three months) to take over direction...
...coach of a badly disrupted political team, Bob Hannegan has a big job ahead. Whether or not he succeeds, Democrats now have, for the first time since Jim Farley quit in 1940, a chairman who likes...
...Farley, daughter of Jim, made a white-tulle-and-camellia debut at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria. In the receiving line, she accompanied herself by humming They're Either Too Young Or Too Old, did much of her handshaking with such oldsters as Morton Downey, Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Westbrook Pegler, Elsa Maxwell, William Bullitt...
...Flak caught another B-26 over the same target, killed the pilot. His body fell forward and threw the ship out of control. The copilot, Flight Officer Stanley B. Farley Jr., lifted the pilot off the controls and pulled the plane out of a spin. The gunners were all wounded, but they crawled forward and dragged the pilot's body out of Farley's way. He had never landed a B26, a plane so "hot" on landing that many experienced pilots do not like to fly it. But Farley brought his B-26 in gently, drifting...
...Relations with politicians, airline heads and people who want something are the forte of fast-minded, diplomatic Harllee Branch, 63, a onetime Washington correspondent of the Atlanta Journal, who worked with Jim Farley in the 1932 campaign, later became Assistant Postmaster General in charge of air mail...