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...party whose triumph Boss Farley was celebrating was not the party of 1924 nor the party of 1932. It was both and something more. Two years ago Mr. Farley took command of what John Jacob Raskob with lots of money and the brains of Jouett Shouse and Pressagent Charles Michelson, had built up from the wreck of 1928. Since then Democracy's leader in the White House had become a national hero. While still retaining the conservative South, the Party captivated North and West with a new brand of social reform and economic experiment. But, more important from...
President Roosevelt, the pilot, was, as Mr. Farley said, "very much overjoyed" at the victory of the New Deal, but Mr. Farley, the mechanic, was no less jubilant at the enormous momentum last fortnight's election had given his machine. How much momentum that was, was evident in the U. S. Senate. With their 69 seats the Democrats will have a majority in that body-even if they lose every Democratic Senator who comes up for re-election-until Jan. 3, 1939. Granting that Democrats are elected to the Senate from the eleven States of the Solid South...
...these hopefuls, eager to seize any advantage in their Party's defeat, James A. Farley had only a horse laugh. Jovially declared the Democratic boss: "I suppose President Roosevelt will have opposition in 1936 but I don't believe it will amount to much. Who will be their candidate? They will have difficulty in finding anyone to make the sacrifice. ... I think the Republicans are through-positively through...
...form telegram of congratulations sent out to successful Democratic candidates by Postmaster General Farley got a sour reception from Albert Cabell Ritchie of Maryland last week. Half an hour before the cheery Farley message arrived, Governor Ritchie had been told by his campaign manager that on the basis of late election returns he had no chance of a fifth successive term at Annapolis.* Victor by 5,000 votes was Republican Harry W. Nice, who capitalized on Governor Ritchie's unpopularity on the Eastern Shore following his anti-lynching stand last autumn (TIME...
Other guests there were, including Postmaster General Farley, President Merlin Hall Aylesworth of National Broadcasting, Dirigibilist Hugo Eckener and a few of Mr. Boomer's fellow Manhattan hotelkeepers. But the majority were European hotelmen who bore tales of lean years and no profits. There were a few notable exceptions, who reported good business, but the general tenor of the conference was so sad that most meetings were closed to the Press...