Word: guffey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wreathed in smiles but distressed at heart, Governor George Howard Earle of Pennsylvania (candidate for the Senate), Senator Joseph F. Guffey and all the principal Democratic candidates for State offices called on Franklin Roosevelt to be photographed with him for campaign purposes. They denied that they had begged him to go into Pennsylvania, make a speech, help them win. Pennsylvania's Supreme Court had put Earle on a spot by declaring unconstitutional two Earle acts in evasion of grave graft charges against his administration: 1) giving his heavily Democratic legislature priority over grand juries in such cases; 2) suspending...
When Franklin Roosevelt introduced him at Denton, Md. last week as the "father" of Social Security, Workmen's Compensation and Parcel Post, the President barely sketched his works. David Lewis also: got labor unions exempted from the anti-trust laws; wrote the guts of the Guffey-Snyder coal act; handled telephones & telegraphs during the War- (and would have been President Wilson's Postmaster General but for political exigencies); has fought Inflation and the Bonus. Churchmouse poor, erudite and intellectually passionate, he dares to do what other Congressmen would tremble at: shut himself up in his office and refuse...
...After being Speaker in the Legislature and State Senator he went to Congress, to the U. S. Senate in 1927. His voting record suggests eccentricity yet shows a pattern: against war, racial injustice, Prohibition, Bonus, tariffs & embargoes, depreciated currency. War debts. He voted against the Wagner Act, the Guffey Coal Act, the Utilities bill, AAA, TVA, NRA, Cotton Control; for SEC, Neutrality, Pump Priming, fathered the Miller-Tydings Act for price control of trademarked goods. In this campaign, his most vulnerable spot is his failure to vote on Social Security...
...Section 208, Title 18 of the Federal criminal code declares it unlawful for any Senator, Representative, "officer or employee of the United States" to solicit political funds "from any other such officer, employee or person." Last week while Pennsylvania's Senator Guffey was in Europe, letters over his signature to all WPA workers in Pennsylvania (270,000 of them) solicited campaign funds. Chairman Sheppard of the Senate campaign funds committee said, "At first blush I can't see where this comes under our resolution." Then he blushed again, called a committee meeting to cogitate Senator Guffey...
...legislative committee was scheduled to begin investigating. Probable result: vindication, deserved or whitewashed, of the Earle administration. Possible results: 1) the Supreme Court may declare one or more of the steamrollered Earle bills unconstitutional; 2) impeachment proceedings may be started against some members of the Supreme Court, who Senator Guffey last week said "debased themselves and their offices by accepting the equivalent of cash from the House of Morgan...