Word: guffey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Actress Bankhead had wanted to thank someone for "Daddy's" elevation to the No. 2 position in the Democratic House organization, Senator Joseph F. Guffey of Pennsylvania would have been the man. Last month Boss Guffey clinched last week's election of Tennessee's gawky, bush-browed Joseph Wellington Byrns to the Speakership by pledging the solid vote of Pennsylvania's 23 Democratic Representatives to his candidacy. Last week Senator Guffey again showed what a power he was in the chamber at the other end of the Capitol from the one in which he officially functions...
...reason of his political triumphs on Election Day and in the choice of Speaker and Majority Leader of the House, Senator Guffey harvested the reward of power. One of his followers was made Democratic whip of the House and another was put on the important Ways & Means Committee. And Joe Guffey himself got a seat on the equally potent Senate Finance Committee...
Senator-elect Guffey's men took one vote which pledged their 23 votes to Candidate Byrns. Beaming, "Joe" Byrns went into their caucus to thank them. "This," he asserted, "absolutely assures my election...
...Capitol Boss Guffey herded them all together for a lesson in practical politics. As newcomers to Congress most of them could not expect much immediate preferment but Mr. Guffey pointed out that for them to get their due and perhaps a little more their best course was to stand and deliver their votes in a body. Twenty-three votes from Pennsylvania would put Representative Byrns into the Speakership when Congress meets Jan. 3 and for that each member of the delegation would undoubtedly get his reward in terms of good committee assignments...
...Naval Affairs; McSwain of South Carolina, Military Affairs; Mansfield of Texas. Rivers & Harbors; Rankin of Mississippi, Veterans; Bankhead of Alabama, Rules. In the next House, however, some two-thirds of the 322 Democrats will come from the North and West and they, too, would like some plums. Shrewd Mr. Guffey, who always likes to play a winner, announced that he would keep his 23 Pennsylvania votes in his pocket until the leadership contest "clarifies...