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...Second Choice. Duff and Darby decided to go to Dewey and get the word. They arranged to meet him, and Darby started East by plane, but was grounded in Chicago. Duff went up to meet Dewey alone. Jim Duff came away convinced that Dewey meant what he had said-literally. He was not a presidential candidate himself and he was for only one candidate: Ike. He had no second choice...
...Organization. The Ike strategists settled down to sweat out the summer, let the organization shake itself down. Darby is general manager, with the Middle and Far West his special concern. Jim Duff is chief of staff, concentrating on the East and South. Kansas' Congressman Cliff Hope is House liaison man for the Middle and Far West, Hugh Scott for the East and South...
When ex-Governor Jim Duff went to Washington as U.S. Senator last year, he thought he had licked old Republican Boss Joe Grundy once & for all, and had left the state in safe hands. In the bitter Republican primary, Duff denounced Grundy and his Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association as a bunch of "high-button-shoe reactionaries." Duff won, against all the power that 87-year-old Grundy could bring against him. With him ran his hand-picked successor as governor, a superior court judge named John Fine...
Welcome Back. Jim Duff was barely settled in the Senate when he realized he had made a bad mistake. Even during the campaign, while Duff thundered against Grundy's "privileged-few" brand of Republicanism, Judge Fine was meeting secretly with Grundy's faithful lieutenant, G. Mason Owlett, in a room in Philadelphia's Ritz-Carlton. A few days after the governor's inauguration, Mason Owlett reappeared in Harrisburg. In other days, Owlett was the man who brought to the governor's office a budget prepared by the Grundy machine. Duff had ordered him out. Governor...
Fine ignored his old patron, Senator Duff. He did not call on him, telephone him, or write. Grundy's policies became Fine's policies. Soon Fine was in a pitched legislative battle with loyal Duff Republicans over his proposal to saddle Pennsylvania with its first state income tax-a measure loudly endorsed by Grundy's man Owlett...