Word: guffey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...words signaled a free track ahead for the Speakership race. Boss Joseph F (for nothing) Guffey of Pennsylvania presently turned up in Washington and called on Vice President Garner for the unconventional purpose of presenting his own credentials as Senator-elect from Pennsylvania. But Mr. Guffey did not go to Washington alone. He took with him his political manager, David L. Lawrence, and the whole House delegation of 23 Democrats elected from Pennsylvania last month...
Famed among oil companies for financial stability, Gulf's capital stock consists of 4,538,000 shares, of which 90% are owned by the House of Mellon. The Mellons started Gulf Oil in 1901 with Pennsylvania's James Guffey, uncle of U. S. Senator-elect Joseph Guffey. It was then called the J. M. Guffey Petroleum Co. Guffey Petroleum went into the red when its wells in the fabulous Texas Spindletop field turned to water. By 1913 the Mellons had built Gulf Oil into a dividend-paying property. By 1929 its net income had averaged $25,000,000 a year...
...chill morning last week the ranking Democrats of Pennsylvania halted election celebrations to journey to a slag-piled hill near the town of McAdoo. There Governor-elect George H. Earle stood beside a freshly-turned grave. There, too, stood Senator-elect Joseph F. Guffey, Democratic State Chairman David Lawrence, onetime Commonwealth Secretary Richard J. Beamish. Presently 10,000 mourners gathered from nearby towns, began to chant the Requiem responses in a half-dozen tongues as three obscure men were laid to rest. The dead buried, a handful of women surged around Governor-elect Earle to scream in Italian...
Pennsylvania. In 1928 State Boss Joseph Francis Guffey thought he could carry Pennsylvania for the Brown Derby if National Boss John Jacob Raskob would give him $500,000 for the campaign. Boss Raskob put up the cash and Pennsylvania, as usual, crashed Republican. This year Boss Guffey thought he could get himself elected to the Senate if National Boss Franklin D. Roosevelt would help him. The President helped, to the tune of a White House luncheon at which Pennsylvania was promised all kinds of good things under the New Deal (TIME, Nov. 5). Result: Boss Guffey became the first Democrat...
...Reed personified to Roosevelt Democrats all the things the New Deal was against. Capitalizing to the limit on Roosevelt prestige and brazenly comparing the $678,000,000 poured into his State as relief and loans by the Roosevelt Administration to the $12,000,000 by the Hoover Administration, Democrat Guffey went about Pennsylvania lauding the President as "God's inspired servant." Even the belated and not altogether convincing support of Governor Pinchot for the G. 0. P. ticket could not save Senator Reed. As Senator-elect Guffey was loudly and truthfully proclaiming his success as a Roosevelt victory, Senator...