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Beginner's Luck. But the big split between Jim Duff and the Grundy-Owlett group was a fight for state control which had been raging ever since Big Jim Duff sat down in the governor's chair. For years Joe Grundy had run the state through his Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association, founded on and dedicated to the principle that what's best for industry is best for the state. Jim Duff had another theory: that capitalism thrives best when it is not just the protector of entrenched wealth, but serves all the people equally...
When his old friend Ed Martin asked him to help with the Martin campaign for governor in 1942, Jim Duff had long been neck-deep in Pennsylvania politics. As a delegate to the state convention in 1912, he helped swing Pennsylvania away from William Howard Taft and into Teddy Roosevelt's Bull Moose herd. He was a constant rebel against Joe Grundy's local and state machines; he remains a Bull Mooser to this...
...Devil's Work? As Ed Martin's attorney general, he banged head-on into Joe Grundy's industrialists. Under Duff's urging, Ed Martin liberalized workmen's compensation and unemployment laws (which Joe Grundy and the P.M.A. have always considered the devil's work), pushed through a bill to curb the discharge of mine silt into the Schuylkill River. When mineowners protested, redheaded...
...Duff shot back: "Do the job yourselves before I've got to put the iron...
...successor for able Governor Ed Martin, the party's bigwigs settled on Big Jim. After a long, weary afternoon's session in the Hotel Hershey, the bosses could still not decide between four other entries. Finally, in a moment of unguarded weariness, Joe Pew pointed to Duff: "That redheaded s.o.b. ought to be the candidate. I called him about it a few days ago and he told me to go to hell...