Word: guffey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coal has been No. 1 horrible example of industrial overcapacity since 1920. Yet coal last week was hard to get. The reason is political: this week John L. Lewis, back from Florida, began negotiating with the mine operators for a new contract. Question before the operators was whether the Guffey-Vinson Act, which gives them a price compensation for all proved cost increases above 2? a ton, would be renewed by Congress before it expires April 26. If the Act is not renewed in time, a strike is certain; even if it is, Lewis may pull a strike anyway...
...teaching job last February. One day her voice was exhibited to Samuel Rosenbaum, president of the Robin Hood Dell concerts. Mr. Rosenbaum, after launching Soprano Lewis in the Dell, vowed to get her what he called "visibility" at the White House. He got it through Pennsylvania's Senator Guffey's sister Emma. Soprano Lewis journeyed to Washington, sang songs and spirituals to Mrs. Roosevelt and 300 guests. Said she afterward: "Everybody was so nice to me. Mrs. Roosevelt thanked me and predicted a fine career...
...Always bad" were silver subsidies (90.2%), Guffey Coal Act (75.3%), gold policy (60.6%), taxation policies (67.7%), pump priming (61.7%), NRA (57.4%), AAA (53.6%), Wagner Labor Act (48.2%, a plurality...
...Democratic ornament of the old, plundergarten school is Senator Joseph F. (for Finch) Guffey of Pennsylvania. Joe Guffey, whose word used to be political law in Pennsylvania, by last week had reached such a pass that he was rated a considerable asset to the Republicans (including his opponent, Philadelphia's rich Jay Cooke...
...that turned out to cheer the President; but there were millions. No commentators agreed on the political advantage to the President of the trip; but it was great. There were innumerable signs of the aid to Democratic candidates carried by the power and prestige of the Presidency-"Senator Joe" Guffey put on a show of making up with Pennsylvania's Democratic National Committeeman David Lawrence by appearing with him on the train; hard-pressed Congressional Candidate Dow Harter received the Presidential blessing by appearing before his voters on the rear platform at Akron...