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...Boss Frank V. Kelly of Brooklyn succeeded in getting Franklin Roosevelt to appoint his friend Harold M. Kennedy U. S. Attorney for New York City's Eastern district, instead of David Schenker, candidate of Mayor LaGuardia and Thomas ("Uncorkable") Corcoran. Interpretation: after his talk last fortnight with Mr. Farley, Mr. Roosevelt decided to appease local bosses; in this instance, abandoned the Corcoran plan to encircle Republican County Attorney Tom Dewey with brilliant New Deal prosecutors and prosecutions. Exaggeration (on the radio by Son Elliott Roosevelt): "Brooklyn is the key to the 1940 election...
...course Jim Farley's grudge against McNutt is rooted in intraparty politics, but my hair is enough like Farley's to help me understand that the grudge is fertilized by a hopeless envy of a head of hair like that...
...effect that the Senate, in leaving Neutrality up in the air, causing "uncertainty" (for which he has so often been blamed) and "gambling" against war abroad, had bud-nipped a nice little boom.* > The Hatch bill effectually demolished the national Roosevelt political machine, as distinct from the national Farley machine (composed of State bosses & underlings) which built up and elected Mr. Roosevelt in 1932, stayed with him in 1936. At the Philadelphia convention three years ago, about half the 1,100 delegates were Federal jobholders. Next year only Cabinet officers, Congressmen and a few top-rank policy officers...
...months ago Jim Farley completed a tour of 13 Midwestern and Western States to assay Roosevelt third-term sentiment. What he found was never published. He loyally saved it for Franklin Roosevelt's ear first. Weeks rolled by and Jim Farley was not asked for his information. Jim Farley did not like that. Then Mr. Roosevelt appointed brash, ambitious Paul McNutt, whom Jim Farley dislikes, to a post of honor and influence (Security Agency). Jim Farley boiled...
Hearing that Democratic Chairman James Aloysius Farley, GOP Chairman John D. M. Hamilton, Liberty Leaguer Jouett Shouse, Stiff-necked Democratic Senator Joseph O'Mahoney, Republican Congressman Ham Fish and John and Anna Roosevelt were all sailing for Europe on the same ship, Franklin D. Roosevelt remarked : "That will be a great boatload," observed that if someone didn't get thrown overboard before the ship reached Southampton he would miss a guess. It would not, he predicted, be Jim Farley...