Word: guffey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Senator Joseph F. Guffey, most vociferous of the Senate's tiny handful of New Dealers, set off a political volcano last week. The volcano might be just the Democratic Party, or it might be the nation. The oratorical lava which seethed out revealed a shocking depth of Senate bitterness against President Roosevelt and his inner circle-at the least. At its worst, it widened a split between Congress and the President which may be symptomatic of national disunity...
Slick, sleek Joe Guffey, in a press release, asserted that the Senate vote rejecting the Administration soldier-vote bill (TIME, Dec. 13) had been the work of "a combination of Northern Republicans, under the leadership of Joe Pew, and of Southern Democrats, under the leadership of Harry Byrd." He called this an "unpatriotic and unholy alliance...
Three Southern Democrats rose up in the Senate to reply, in an extraordinary spate of oratory-Virginia's Harry Byrd, North Carolina's Josiah Bailey, South Carolina's Cotton Ed Smith (see p. 14). They tore Joe Guffey to shreds, came close to out-&-out denunciation of Mr. Roosevelt. Senators Bailey and Smith talked threateningly about a new Southern Democratic Party...
Long shelved by Franklin Roosevelt, he has now been picked up by Pennsylvania's Joseph F. Guffey, worried about Republican-minded Pennsylvania. His chances of election: unpredictable...
...April 26: The six-year-old Guffey Coal Act, which outlawed price-cutting on bituminous coal, expires...