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Harvey Taylor, a converted Grundyman who was after renomination as state senator. But that attempt to give Duff his comeuppance ended disastrously...
...election day Ed Martin ran third, behind both Harold Stassen and Tom Dewey, as a presidential favorite. Duff's man Taylor squeaked by with a 1,199-vote majority. Throughout the state the returns put Duff more securely in the saddle than ever...
...incongruous alliance. In the very week that Tom Dewey was urging reciprocal trade extension in Boston, Grundy's Doylestown Daily Intelligencer was editorially burning free-trade heretics at the stake. It was not that Joe Grundy distrusted Tom Dewey less; it was a case of distrusting Jim Duff more...
...fight. Fortnight ago Philadelphia's Sheriff Austin Meehan, a Duffman who has been given control of the job-heavy state Department of Revenue, got word that the governor of New York wanted to call for a personal interview. When Meehan replied that he would see Dewey only in Duff's company, the interview was called...
...Snorted Duff: "Dewey turns up in this state with the vigorous support of the people who have opposed every progressive step the Republican Party has taken. I assume that since Dewey says publicly he is ... for these programs, he or his agents must be telling Mason Owlett something else. I am driven to the conclusion that Dewey will promise anybody anything if it will make him President of the U.S. Dewey looks like a man without principle...