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TIME's article "Battle of the Socialites" [March 9] states that the term Grundyism was inspired by Pennsylvania's stiff-collared conservative and onetime G.O.P. State Chairman Joe Grundy. I believe, however, that the term was originally inspired by the prudish and narrowminded Mrs. Grundy, a person referred to in Thomas Morton's comedy Speed the Plough...
...What will Mrs. Grundy say?" worried Dame Ashby throughout Morton's play. For years Mrs. Grundy and grundyism were synonymous with conventional behavior. But when Joe Grundy of Pennsylvania became influential in U.S. politics, the word took on the new meaning of "high button shoe political conservatism...
Pennsylvania's Republican Old Guard, inheritors of the right-leaning tradition of onetime State Chairman Joe Grundy (the inspiration for Grundyism, a byword for stiff-collared conservatism), started off by backing a political nobody: Superior Court Judge Robert E. Woodside, 57. Then U.S. Senator Hugh Scott jumped into the race, ready to step aside if Scranton ran, and touched off a major melee by quoting Gettysburg Republican Dwight Eisenhower as saying he would "rather see a primary fight than be forced to take a miserable ticket"-a thinly disguised blast at Woodside. The Old Guard reluctantly retired Woodside, brought...
Died. Joseph Ridgway ("Uncle Joe") Grundy, 98, millionaire worsted-yarn spinner and Republican politician for more than half a century, whose expression of apple-cheeked innocence belied a diehard brand of economic reaction now known in political dictionaries as "Grundyism"; at Nassau, in the Bahamas. The son of a Pennsylvania Quaker textile magnate who dabbled in politics, Grundy learned early about men and machines, efficiently mobilized them for causes challenged even by some fellow Republicans as "Government by a few, for a few, at the expense of the public," but which he proudly pursued as articles of faith "next...
...fight," Duff had said, "is between high-button-shoe reactionaries and the advocates of progressive government." Grundyism, trumpeted Duff, meant "government by a few, for a few, at the expense of the public." Grundymen retorted bitterly that Duff was a "me-too" spendthrift, viewed with alarm the millions he had added to the state's budget for welfare services, pointed out that Harry Truman himself had facetiously invited him to become a Democrat...