Word: guffey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dinner was a brain child of Joseph F. Guffey of Pennsylvania, chairman of the Senate Democratic Campaign Committee. Guffey did himself proud. He hired the richly ornate Chinese room at the Mayflower Hotel and then went out and collared all of Norris' friends in the high places of Washington...
Seated between Guffey and Vice President Henry A. Wallace, the old man looked sort of sheepish. He seemed more bashful than ever when Guffey opened up with a speech of thunderous praise. Then Guffey turned things over to Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, who as toastmaster heaped on more praise. From Henry Wallace, Archibald MacLeish, the Senate's Alben Barkley came more panegyrics, more acclaim...
...blows of their own. Harry Byrd called the proposal the "most complicated and unworkable plan" the Treasury had submitted in nine years: "It would compel taxpayers to pay more taxes than they have income." Bob La Follette termed its provisions "heresy" and "a hell of a note." To Joe Guffey the scheme was stillborn. It "staggered" Colorado Ed Johnson's imagination. Puddler Jim Davis threw up his hands: "It is too complicated for an ordinary man like me to understand." It was "the most complicated monstrosity" Bennett Champ Clark had ever seen...
Pennsylvania. Big unanswered question about the race for Governor was: Would bald, suave, ex-Ambassador William C. Bullitt be a Democratic candidate? Bullitt said neither yes nor no. Democratic Senator Joseph F. Guffey, whose machine is hard-boiled, was saying plenty: he wants no silk stockings in the race...
...Decided to send a representative to Scranton, Pa. to survey possible defense-plant locations near the hard-coal source, after Pennsylvania's Senator Joseph F. Guffey told him: Even if anthracite mines were at peak production, "there would still be 60,000 too many miners in that area...