Word: guffey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Truman and Senator Barkley had just come into the hall (see above) when Mrs. Emma Guffey Miller bustled up to the podium. The sister of Pennsylvania's ex-Senator Joseph Guffey, and a perennial committeewoman, Mrs. Miller calls herself the Old Grey Mare...
...Boss, I just can't,' I protested. 'I gave my word-my word to Harrison, Barkley, Byrnes and Guffey on the train...
...lost almost all of its stalwarts in the House-Washington's Hugh de Lacey, West Virginia's Matt Neeley, Michigan's Frank Hook, Pennsylvania's Mike Bradley and John Sheridan. Gone from the Senate would be such labor 100-percenters as Pennsylvania's Joe Guffey, Utah's Abe Murdock, Delaware's James Tunnell, Washington's Hugh Mitchell...
Pennsylvania's defeated Democratic Senator Joe Guffey: "The people evidently wanted a change...
Although it is too early to be sure, in large measure the surprising margin of Republican victory can be ascribed to the almost total disappearance of the labor vote in America, a vote which in the Roosevelt era proved decisive time and time again. Men like Guffey and Voorhis, with one hundred per cent labor records, went down to defeat, while the CIO PAC in its initial test without Roosevelt's support railed to deliver on almost every candidate who claimed its support...