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...Pinchot appointed Fine to a judgeship. Fine took the job reluctantly, more to protect his prestige as a patronage dispenser than because he wanted it. In 1947 Governor James Duff promoted him to the Pennsylvania Superior Court. Each time, after his appointment was up, Fine was elected to the posts. It never bothered Fine-and it never bothered most of the people in Luzerne County-that he was a political boss and a judge at the same time...
Although they were cautious in comments about Hero MacArthur, the Eisenhower high command let fly at Politician Hallanan. Pennsylvania's Senator Jim Duff roared: "As an umpire we'll have a man who is already a player in the game." Campaign Manager Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. speculated that he might take a megaphone to Chicago, in case Hallanan refused to let Ikemen use the microphones. Taftmen on the arrangements committee, said Lodge, had used "shyster tactics...
Even the usually staid Advocate got into trouble. Although the post office declared its parody of "Dial" was mail-able, Boston still banned it. A nude man, line drawings and obscene Jokes provoked Municipal Court Judge John Duff to say. "Not in years has more indecent literature' been placed on sale in Boston. Even the Holy Bible did not escape their perverted brains...
Meantime, in the enemy camp, the activity was almost as furious. Eisenhower clubs had been organized in all but half a dozen of South Dakota's 68 counties, and a first-string squad was coming in to speak for Ike. Among them were Senators Jim Duff of Pennsylvania and Fred Seaton of Nebraska, Governors Dan Thornton of Colorado, Val Peterson of Nebraska and Sherman Adams of New Hampshire, Representatives Walter Judd of Minnesota and Clifford Hope of Kansas. The Ike big guns would fire their heaviest volleys after Taft left the state this week...
Some time ago I was invited, along with Senator James Duff of Pennsylvania and Wayne Morse of Oregon, to address the Oberlin Mock Convention at Oberlin College, Ohio. Since a copy of what is unfortunately the only Breakfast Table Daily in Cambridge containing a letter from one Vernon M. Hawkins, 3rd '51 (a truly extraordinary person whom, try as I may, I cannot dislike) reached me on the eve of that address, and also considering that the remarks I intend to make here tomorrow have a certain limited relevance to the question at hand, I shall quote from that speech...