Word: guffey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harold M. Stephen, Florida's Frank J. Wideman to be Assistant Attorneys General; Tennessee's John Harcourt Alexander Morgan* and Wisconsin's David E. Lilienthal to be Tennessee Valley Authority directors; Pennsylvania's Carroll Miller, brother-in-law of Demo-cratic Boss "Joe" Guffey, to be an Interstate Commerce Commissioner. ¶A White House caller last week was pretty Margaret Kruis, who was wounded in the head last February when Joe Zangara attempted to assassinate the President-elect at Miami. President Roosevelt recalled that he had visited Miss Kruis at the hospital after the shooting, found...
...industrial fires already glowing, he had irons in other fires just kindling. Nine years had passed since he had bought into Aluminum Co. of America and the investment began to look promising. He held a lot of bonds in an oil company sponsored by that picturesque Pittsburgher, J. M. Guffey. Six years later those bonds were to give him control of the company which would turn into great Gulf Oil and an impregnable fortune...