Word: governors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...breakfast, at which Governor Earle was entertaining State Democratic Chair man David Lawrence and Philadelphia Leader Matt McCloskey, had been called to celebrate the Guffey machine's decision of the night before on its candidate for Governor in the April primaries. No sooner had Mr. Guffey's followers started congratulating not Thomas Kennedy but an obscure, conservative Pittsburgh law yer named Charles Alvin Jones on his tentative nomination than the excitement be gan. No reporters were present and most of them were unable to describe the scene in detail, but Thomas P. O'Neil of Phila delphia...
...Guffey arrived . . . fighting mad. . . .'All bets are off,' said Guffey. 'I am a candidate for Governor, come hell or high water. . . .' Matt McCloskey raced across the room, shook his fist under Guffey's nose. . . . Red with rage, Dave Lawrence, who the night before took himself out of the race, jumped into the free-for-all. . . . 'Now I understand,' he bellowed, 'why I didn't get the support for my candidacy from persons who . . . should have been in my corner...
...room. When he reappeared after taking a walk along the Susquehanna, he announced that he had reconsidered and would give "wholehearted support" to the ticket after all. But later that day Miner Lewis flatly announced in Washington that, ticket or no ticket, he would support Miner Kennedy for Governor. Did this mean, newshawks asked, that C. I. O.'s half-million Pennsylvania voters would walk out on the Democratic ticket? Replied John L. Lewis: "Figure it out for yourself...
Since Mr. Lewis holds the balance of power in Pennsylvania, the ticket was temporarily shelved. Adding to the confusion is the fact that John L. Lewis is toying with the idea of backing Republican Gifford Pinchot for Governor, running Miner Kennedy for Senator...
Last week Judge Frederick W. Fosdick of the Massachusetts Superior Court handed down a decision holding that two good Bay State Democrats were guilty of accepting graft in a manner intelligible to the humblest citizen. One was James Michael Curley, thrice Mayor of Boston, once Governor of Massachusetts: the other his political satellite. Dr. Joseph Santosuosso, twice Democratic candidate for State Secretary of State...