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Long have I esteemed TIME'S unsparing directness in portraying the naked truth, especially when pompous political personages are concerned. It is a unique pleasure however when TIME'S photographer treats us to such a delicious subtlety as in your article "Mr. Farley Announces," under National Affairs on p. 13 of your April 1 issue...
This amazingly eloquent picture-without-words tells the whole story: "Nuts to you, Mr. President," for unless my eyes deceive me the photographer caught Mr. Farley in the act of passing "the nut dish to "the Boss...
James Aloysius Farley. Big Jim, 51, 6 ft. 2 in., 215 Ib. of partisan good will, "the man who has done most for Grassy Point, New York" (where he was born), is also the man who has done most for Franklin Roosevelt. Last week Big Jim, still living down his unearned reputation as an out-&-out politician and therefore a low fellow, traveled through Midwest, Border and Southern towns, trying to do for himself in a quiet way what he did so clamorously for his boss. On Mule Day in Columbia, Tenn., Big Jim played Titania to a mule, Prince...
...Washington Post, Roosevelt-Biographer Ernest K. Lindley reported that in a conversation with a Democratic elder, Mr. Roosevelt said: 1) he would not run for Term III unless the Germans overran England; 2) Secretary of State Cordell Hull was his candidate, was safe, could be elected; 3) Jim Farley was unacceptable as a Vice-Presidential nominee because some people might think the Democrats "were using Cordell Hull as a stalking horse for the Pope" (TIME, March...
...ballot that confronted Wisconsin voters was a complex maze. For Roosevelt there were two slates: one an anti-Hoover-Democrat group headed by Gustave Keller, Appleton lawyer, chummy with La Folletteers; one a "Roosevelt-Farley" ticket, headed by Charles E. Broughton, Sheboygan politician, made up of machine Democrats. For John Nance Garner was a slate bossed by John J. Slocum, Assembly clerk, expected to attract many an anti-Term III voter who would rather protest a Roosevelt re-election than choose between Messrs. Dewey and Vandenberg...