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...days; that the impact of the defeat upon the U. S. people would nullify all the rules of a campaign year; that in the lurid light of such an event, ordinary political needs, courtesies, funds, managers, candidates, deals would make little difference; that it was no matter if Jim Farley went, if Jack Garner hunted, fished, sulked, if political hacks carried the Party banner in State races; that with England gone, and the U. S. isolated in a hostile world, the Presidential election could not be close: whoever won was going to win by a landslide-that probably Franklin Roosevelt...
...separately, that Mr. Roosevelt was not campaigning, would not campaign. When Wendell Willkie, frankly campaigning (see p. 16), proposed publicity for Presidential wealth, Mr. Roosevelt distantly replied that he was poorer and wiser than he was in 1928 when he was elected Governor of New York. When Postmaster General Farley resigned (National Chairman Farley had already quit) to go to work for the New York Yankees and Coca-Cola, a hint of human regret tinged Mr. Roosevelt's reply: "I accept with real regret . . . sincere sorrow. . . . All of us . . . will miss you deeply. . . . I need not tell you that...
...Congressional Record's 108 pages was spread honey-sweet praise for retiring Democratic National Committee Chairman and Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley...
...Buster Tom Dewey could find on Ed Flynn was the fact that when he was Sheriff of The Bronx (1921-25) one of his deputies was Gangster Arthur ("Dutch Schultz") Flegenheimer (who had much closer connections with Tammany's convicted Jimmy Hines). Last year Flynn learned that Jim Farley wanted to go out of politics and into business because he needed money to pay his debts. Mr. Flynn was heard to say, in great surprise: "Why, in his position he ought to be able to make plenty of money...
Bigwig Democrats have seen something of Ed Flynn at the last three national conventions. But he is a stranger to thousands of local party hacks whom Jim Farley calls by first names...