Word: jim
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Patrick Henry Callahan of Louisville Varnish Co., a Democratic letter-writer almost as assiduous as National Chairman Jim Farley, wrote the latter saying: ". . . Get busy on some sort of a plan to get the Roosevelt philosophy to the traveling men and salesmen of the country." Most of Louisville Varnish's sales men, said Colonel Callahan, had become infected by the anti-Roosevelt feeling they encounter everywhere among their customers. "This " . . reactionary line of thinking is thrown into our salesmen five or six times every day and it is having its effect. . . . Salesmen, as you know, do a great...
...Apple? To bulwark himself politically, President Cárdenas recently reorganized his party from top to bottom, changed its name from National Revolutionary Party to Party of the Mexican Revolution, put in, as his Jim Farley, Luis Inocencio Rodriguez, his longtime personal favorite. If Cárdenas does not run again he might choose Luis Rodriguez as his successor. Another politico who might try to grab the job is Mexico's loudmouthed, posturing, Moscow-visiting Vicente Lombardo Toledano. He claims to lead 1,000,000 organized proletarians in his Confederation of Mexican Workers-by far the most potent force...
...strikes, methodical Democrat Sawyer eliminated picturesque Democrat Davey, 449,000 to 419,000. Meanwhile, Senator Robert J. Bulkley, with just one "my good friend'' from the President, was able to win renomination against onetime Governor George White, who was Democratic National Chairman in 1920 and the Jim Farley of Franklin Roosevelt's unsuccessful Vice-Presidential campaign...
...Pittsburgh accountant named Michael Charles Conick got a juicy job last week. Pennsylvania's Republican Senator James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis persuaded Ohio's Democratic Senator Vic Donahey, chairman of the Congressional committee which is exploring TVA, that their job is 85% accounting and auditing; that though twelve experts from the U. S. Comptroller General's office are now digging through TVA's books, investigation of one Government agency by another would not satisfy the U. S. public unless checked by an independent inspection. Senator Davis had friends, he said, who would help him finance such...
...politics was last week added the biggest & best to date, no less a personage than Democratic National Chairman James Aloysius Farley. At Mackinac Island, where he went to exhort Michigan Democrats to elect Rooseveltians to Congress, he was asked about his own Presidential ambitions for 1940. Bluntly Jim Farley replied...