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These three Longsters had every reason to return the President's cordiality, for the Long State machine and the Farley National machine are now on terms of mutual respect and cooperation. The Louisiana prohibition against New Deal money has been abolished, and WPA millions now flow freely into Louisiana. The old income tax indictments, including that of Mr. Weiss, have been quashed...
...that monetary influences have anything to do with the present tendency toward rising prices. President Roosevelt himself can be confidently expected not to balance the budget when he says he will. Indeed one of the few men in public life who knows what he's talking about is General Farley...
...General Farley has given the Senate, out of the kindness of his patronizing heart, the privilege of talking as long as it wants, but when the votes are mustered the reorganization will go through. It is impossible to contest the judgment of so clairvoyant a political prophet. The reorganization probably will go through. But meanwhile it is significant that there are liberals left like Mr. Burlingham who are willing to get up and contest the proposal to do away with the independent judiciary, a proposal which after all is the most reactionary idea that has yet sprung from the fertile...
...summer he answered Secretary Wallace's Whose Constitution? in a speech called Our Constitution. Last August in mid-campaign he resigned from the Democratic National Committee. His reason presumably was the nomination of wild Terry Carpenter for the Senate on the Democratic ticket, but his letter to Chairman Farley had a two-edged paragraph: "I cannot work for the election of any candidate masquerading as a Democrat who is a Democrat in name only and who neither understands nor cares at all for the fundamental principles [of[ the Democratic Party. . . ." Now Senator Burke is the marshal...
...charging him with violating the Mann Act with a Denver 17-year-old named Delight Jewett. Hunt, a fat, thrice-married young man with plenty of money, became a Divinite in Manhattan two years ago, was last year put under observation in Bellevue Hospital because he sent Postmaster General Farley certain obscene confessions as to the good Father Divine had done him. According to Miss Jewett, a schoolgirlish young lady whose story the Journal frontpaged daily last week, Hunt-"St. John the Revelator" in Divinese-converted her to belief in the Harlem godhead, presently seduced...