Word: guffey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Murray is a liar to the best of my knowledge and belief and always has been," cracked Steelman Girdler. "Senator Guffey doesn't know what he's talking about...
Chairman McKellar admonished Mr. Girdler that Mr. Guffey as a Senator was entitled to respect. Mr. Girdler: "I don't call it disrespectful to say that a Senator does not know what he's talking about...
...were talking about irresponsible union officials," continued Senator Guffey. "Maybe that's one reason your employes don't want a verbal agreement with you, feeling that if you would give confidential information you aren't responsible either...
...inadequacies of Herbert Hoover, then fell under the spell of an errant Philadelphia socialite, William Christian ("Bill") Bullitt. Thereafter his march down the sawdust trail broke into a run. With his Main Line friends he was in disgrace, but soon he was making other friends, Oilman Joseph F. Guffey, boss of Pennsylvania's Demo-cratic machine; David Leo Lawrence, a practical politician born in Pittsburgh's Old Point section down near the conflux of the Monongahela and the Allegheny; Julius David Stern, radical Jewish publisher of Philadelphia's Record. These gentlemen could hardly help noticing Convert Earle...
Boom. The smart board of political strategy which has advised Governor Earle consists of Senator Guffey and of David L. Lawrence, who is the Governor's Secretary of the Commonwealth and patronage dispenser. Although Mr. Guffey bosses the machine, Governor Earle does not always obey him. This year, for example, he backed a bill for adding an extra brakeman to freight and passenger train crews. Labor wanted it but Senator Guffey, who is campaigning for lower freight rates on coal, opposed it. With the aid of David Lawrence, the Governor got the Legislature to pass...