Word: guffey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Williamsport, Pa., on a platform graced also by the potent Emma Guffey Miller, sister and mentor of U. S. Senator Joseph Guffey, the mayor knowingly inquired: 1) whether Governor Earle had borrowed $30,000 from Little Matt; 2) how many millions of dollars worth of State contracts had been awarded to Contractor McCloskey; and 3) how many McCloskey men the State had appointed to inspect McCloskey jobs. From Harrisburg hapless Debtor Earle replied: "Matthew H. McCloskey has been one of my personal friends. ... As my friend, he made several loans to me during the years 1935 and 1936, prior...
More important than the Governor's personal fortune was the certainty that the growing gaps between the principals in the once invincible Guffey-Earle-McCloskey-John L. Lewis combination would be filled with scandalous dirt seldom matched in scandalous Pennsylvania politics. No sooner had Mayor Wilson opened the mudgates than Boss Guffey asked the Senate to find out whether Governor Earle had designated Little Matt as a State Representative in apportioning PWA funds. PWA Administrator Harold Ickes tacitly confirmed that Contractor McCloskey had counseled both the State and the PWA on the mechanics of allotting more than twenty million...
...Democratic designee, Lawyer Charles Alvin Jones of Pittsburgh. Running for the Senatorial nomination on the old line Democratic slate is Labor's good friend, Governor George H. Earle. Governor Earle's support of Lawyer Jones has cost him the backing of C. I. O. and Senator Joseph Guffey who are opposing him with Philadelphia's currently non-partisan mayor, Samuel Davis Wilson. Out of this confusion and uprooting of old friendships, those who hope to benefit most are two more friends of Labor: Gifford Pinchot, Republican candidate for Governor, and "Puddler Jim" Davis who hopes to succeed...
...April 30, thus provoked an uproar. Gloating over Mr. Hosford's downfall, the minority group in the commission, which has long opposed him, called him into executive session and asked him to get out of his office at once. He did so. John L. Lewis and Senator Joseph Guffey were reported to be set to test their political strength by forcing the immediate choice of Coal Commissioner Pleas (rhymes with fez) E. Greenlee of Indiana as chairman. This week the commission unanimously voted to defer selection of a permanent chairman until the President named Mr. Hosford's successor...
...accord but because the principals in Pennsylvania's row about the Democratic gubernatorial nomination (TIME. Feb. 28) came to him for counsel. To the White House went Governor Earle, State Democratic Chairman David Lawrence. Publisher David Stern of the Philadelphia Record and Senator Joseph Guffey, presumably to get endorsement of a candidate. Said Governor Earle when the party emerged: "The President had only one suggestion. He said he needed Joe Guffey in the United States Senate and he requested that we leave him there...