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...Franklin Roosevelt knew that the election next November in the most populous State in the Union is of great concern to the Party which he heads-and never forgets that he heads. Tom Dewey, the apparent Republican nominee, is busily at work. And on the Democratic side crafty Jim Farley had commitments from 51 out of 62 county delegations for his man, Attorney General John J. Bennett Jr. Mr. Roosevelt did not think John Bennett was the man to beat Tom Dewey. He wanted the hottest candidate he could get. Mead seemed to fill the bill. And also at stake...
...Roosevelt plump for Mead meant a battle with Jim Farley, once his closest political friend. It meant kicking the pins from under John Bennett, once a Roosevelt protégé. And big, bald, genial Jim Farley was determined to make this a real fight. After all, he had the delegates (up to now). Within an hour after Jim Mead announced his candidacy, Jim Farley issued a bone-bruising statement. He cited nine occasions on which Jim Mead had said he did not want to be Governor of New York; he said Jim Mead was "scared" of the job, said...
Then came the White House blow-off Jim Farley had prepared against. Senator Wagner, on leaving the Executive Mansion, announced that the President would back any "liberal" candidate. Next day Tammany Leader Kennedy amended the definition: Franklin Roosevelt would back any liberal who had backed the Roosevelt foreign policy 100% before Pearl Harbor...
...Unperturbed, Jim Farley smoothly said that the man who fit those requirements was, of course, John Bennett. Ed Flynn, hedging, declared that the description could cover many men: Bennett or New Deal Senator James M. Mead -even Al Smith. But Smith quickly eliminated himself; "I'm too old," said...
...only Democrat who could get American Labor Party support, needed to beat Tom Dewey. Jim Mead, with four secure years in the Senate ahead of him, and with at least 50 friends among the 51 bosses committed to Bennett, was cagey. He craftily named his own candidate: Jim Farley...