Word: guffey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could have whatever he wanted. Month ago a dinner was given for him in Philadelphia, at which such speakers as Henry Morgenthau Sr., Frank Comerford Walker, executive director of the President's National Emergency Council, Mint Directress Nellie Tayloe Ross, Internal Revenue Commissioner Guy T. Helvering, Joseph F. Guffey, Pittsburgh Democratic boss, and many another bigwig paid him tribute. The President sent a special message by Mr. Walker: "Please convey my best wishes . . . particularly to my good friend, the honored guest, Eddie Dowling." Last week Mr. Gerry said nothing, and Howard McGrath, Rhode Island Democratic Chairman, did not scoff...
...Attorney General William A. Schnader, endorsed by the Mellon-Vare machine. His motto: "I refuse to sell you a gold brick." Among the rash of twelve other Republican candidates, most promising was Lieut. Governor Edward C. Shannon, a conservative out-state farmer with veteran backing. For Senator, Joseph Guffey, Democratic boss of the state, was whooping up his own candidacy. In 1890 he went to Princeton, met and admired Woodrow Wilson, made money in oil in Pittsburgh. He persuaded John Jacob Raskob that he could carry his state for Smith in 1928 with half a million dollars. He lost...
...good chance of being Pennsylvania's first Democratic Senator since President Hayes's time, he would not be running for the nomination. Only man of prominence in the field against Boss Guffey is Roland Sletor Morris, onetime Ambassador to Japan, Philadelphia lawyer, professor of international law at the University of Pennsylvania and president of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. Lawyer Morris' style is cramped because he was distinctly not a "For Roosevelt Before Chicago" man. Widest primary breach exists between Governor Pinchot and David Aiken Reed, fighting to succeed himself as Pennsylvania's senior Republican Senator. Before...
...spouted into the air. That well at Spindletop was to turn out more oil in the first three years than all the wells of Pennsylvania combined. It remade the oil business. Unable to cope with a financial find of such magnitude the Jugoslav and his backer called in Colonel Guffey of Pittsburgh. Guffey soon called in the Mellons. Andrew Mellon bought out the discoverer for $400,000. The $15,000,000 Guffey Petroleum Co. (later Gulf Oil) was founded-40% Mellon owned to begin with-more as time went on. In the midst of these busy times, Andrew Mellon, aged...
...Picked as U. S. Minister to Austria, today's hot spot of Central Europe, was George Hansell Earle Jr., polo-playing Philadelphia socialite. A onetime Republican, he supported Franklin Roosevelt last year. His appointment, first diplomatic patronage to go to Pennsylvania, had the endorsement of Joe Guffey, the State's Democratic boss. After his Harvard graduation (1913) Mr. Earle roamed Germany and Austria for two years, served in the Navy during the War, is now vice president of Pennsylvania Sugar Co., a director of the Philadelphia Record. Dark, handsome, husky, he lives with his wife and four children...