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Farley and was
The production was directed by Trevor Nunn, with choreography by Lynne Page, sets and costumes by David Farley and new orchestrations by Jason Carr.
On December 18, 1997, comedian Chris Farley was found dead in his apartment on the 60th floor of the John Hancock Center.
The Palmers Green reference was prompted by the fact that Trouble had just split up with his girlfriend and was at a party thrown by his friend, Charles " Charlie Farley " Hallinan, near The Fox public house in Palmers Green.
Olancha was established by Minnard Farley, who came to the area in 1860 and discovered silver ore in the nearby Coso Range.
* James I. Farley ( 1871 – 1948 ), member of U. S. House of Representatives, 1933 – 1939, was born on a farm near Hamilton.
It was designed by architect Louis A. Simon under Postmaster General James Farley.
The Dubuque South-Western Railroad — the local branch of the Chicago-Milwaukee and St. Paul lines — was contracted to establish a line from Farley to Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
* Frank S. Farley ( 1901-1977 ), New Jersey State Senator who was a Republican political boss in Atlantic County.
He was finally successful on November 8, 1755 when he sold in North Carolina to two merchant brothers from the island of Antigua, Simon and Francis Farley.
Farley was also a member of the 3rd Provincial Congress that met at Hillsboro.
James Parke Farley was killed during the Revolutionary War leaving his wife and four daughters to fend for themselves, and Sauratown was unmanaged.
The college beagle pack ( Christ Church and Farley Hill Beagles ), which was formerly one of several undergraduate packs in Oxford, is no longer formally connected with the college or the university, but continues to be staffed and followed by undergraduates from across Oxford.
Christopher Crosby " Chris " Farley ( February 15, 1964 – December 18, 1997 ) was an American comedian and actor.
Farley was best known for his loud energetic comedy style and physical comedy, and was a member of Chicago's Second City Theatre and cast member of the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live between 1990 and 1995.
On August 26, 2005, Farley was posthumously awarded the 2, 289th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, which is located in front of iO West.
Farley was born in Madison, Wisconsin, the son of Mary Anne ( née Crosby ), a housewife, and Thomas " Tom " Farley, Sr., who owned an oil company.
Along with Chris Rock, Farley was one of two new Saturday Night Live cast members announced in the spring of 1990.
Popular characters performed by Farley included himself on The Chris Farley Show, a talk show in which Farley quite often " interviewed " the guest, got very nervous and asked simple-minded or irrelevant questions, such as what their favorite rock band was ; Matt Foley, an over-the-top motivational speaker who constantly reminded other characters that he " lived in a van, down by the river "; Todd O ' Connor of Bill Swerski's Superfans, a group of stereotypical Chicagoans who constantly shouted " da Bears!
Off-screen, Farley was well known for his pranks in the offices of Saturday Night Live.

Farley and elected
Smith was elected Governor of New York in 1918 with the help of Murphy and James A. Farley, who brought Smith the upstate vote.
Smith lost his bid for reelection in 1920, but was again elected governor in 1922, 1924 and 1926 with James A. Farley managing his campaign.
In 1857 he contested again, representing the liberal interest against John Farley Leith, and was elected.
Farley had been elected to public office only once, to the New York State Assembly, an office that he held for only one year: 1922-23.

Farley and Chairman
He was notable not only as an avid collector in his own right ( with a collection estimated at around 1 million stamps ), but also for taking an interest in the stamp issues of the Department, working closely with Postmaster James Farley, the former Democratic Party Committee Chairman.
* Postmaster General James Farley occupied two adjoining suites in the Waldorf-Astoria Towers during his tenure as the Chairman of the Board of Coca-Cola's International division from 1940 until his death in 1976, arguably one of the landmark's longest housed tenants.
James Aloysius Farley ( May 30, 1888 – June 9, 1976 ) was one of the first Irish Catholic politicians in American history to achieve success on a national level, serving as Chairman of the New York State Democratic Committee, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee and as Postmaster General simultaneously under the first two administrations of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Farley would get his first taste of national and global attention for his role in fighting for equal rights for African-Americans as Chairman of the New York State Athletic Commission.
Farley was named Chairman of the New York State Democratic Committee, a post he would hold until his resignation in 1944.
In accordance with political tradition, FDR appointed Farley Postmaster General, a post traditionally given to the campaign manager or an influential supporter, and also took the unusual step of naming Farley Chairman of the Democratic National Committee in addition to the cabinet post in 1933.
In 1940, Walker became Postmaster General ( succeeding James Farley, who had also been DNC Chairman and Roosevelt's campaign manager ).

Farley and County
Farley is a city in Dubuque County, Iowa, United States.
Farley is the sixth-largest city in Dubuque County.
Peosta is currently the seventh-largest city in Dubuque County, but it will likely soon pass Farley ( pop.
Farley Township is a township in Polk County, Minnesota, United States.
Farley is a village in Platte County, Missouri, U. S., along the Platte River.
John Farley was born in Newtownhamilton, County Armagh, Ireland, to Philip and Catherine ( née Murphy ) Farley.
Johnson ’ s successor as leader of the Atlantic County Republican organization, Frank “ Hap ” Farley, is mentioned once, in connection with events that transpired while Edge was out-of-state during his second term as governor, and Farley, as state senate president, was acting governor.
Farley is married to CNBC personal finance reporter Sharon Epperson, who authored the financial book The Big Payoff, and they live in Westchester County, New York with their two children.
# REDIRECT Farley Township, Polk County, Minnesota
Charles Saxon Farley, a past member of the SC Legislature from Lee County, married Laura Douglas.

Farley and Democratic
With Postmaster General James A. Farley and WPA administrator Harry Hopkins cutting deals with state and local Democratic officials, Roosevelt used federal discretionary spending, especially the Works Progress Administration ( 1935 – 1942 ) as a national political machine.
Other candidates being considered for the position included National League president Ford Frick, Democratic National Committee chairman Robert E. Hannegan, former Postmaster General James Farley, US Senator John W. Bricker, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, former federal judge Fred M. Vinson, Ohio Governor Frank Lausche, and Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson.
In the 1930s, James A. Farley was the chief dispenser of the Democratic Party's patronage system through the Postal Department and the Works Progress Administration which eventually nationalized many of the job benefits machines provided.
As of 1942, Farley was considered the supreme Democratic Party Boss of New York.
The Democrats could not win north of the Bronx line before Farley organized the Upstate New York Democratic organization.
" Farley was appointed to the New York State Athletic Commission at the suggestion of James J. Walker in 1923 and Farley served as a delegate at the 1924 Democratic National Convention, where he befriended a young Franklin D. Roosevelt who would give his famous " Happy Warrior " speech regarding the then-Governor Al Smith.
Farley orchestrated FDR's narrow victory in the 1928 gubernatorial election, Farley was named secretary of the New York State Democratic Committee and orchestrated FDR's reelection in 1930.
At the 1940 Democratic National Convention, where Walsh supported James Farley for president rather than FDR, he and his fellow isolationist Senator Burton Wheeler of Montana proposed a plank for the party platform that read: " We will not participate in foreign wars and we will not or army or navy or air force to fight in foreign lands outside of the Americas.
* Spencer, Thomas T. "' Old ' Democrats and New Deal Politics: Claude G. Bowers, James A. Farley, and the Changing Democratic Party, 1933-1940 " Indiana Magazine of History 1996 92 ( 1 ): 26-45.
Farley, who went on to become the chairman of the Democratic National Committee and a Postmaster General, kept a file on everyone he ever met, and who ever met Roosevelt.
Norman E. Borden, in Air Mail Emergency of 1934, wrote: " To lessen the attacks on Roosevelt and Farley, Democratic leaders in both houses of Congress and Post Office officials placed the blame for all that had gone wrong on the shoulders of Foulois.
One of the most powerful of these was James A. Farley who was the chief dispenser of Democratic Party patronage during Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal administration.
Farley parlayed his position as Democratic National Committee boss into a run for the Democratic nomination for President in 1940.
Farley was a Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States in 1940 and opposed the F. D. R.

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