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Next day another 100% New Dealer spoke up loudly enough to be heard. In the Senate up rose Pennsylvania's Senator Joseph F. Guffey. Said...
Truman was no ball of fire in his first term. He sat meekly in the freshman row, blinked when critics called him Pendergast's "errand boy," was second only to Pennsylvania's Joseph Guffey (whose vote for New Deal measures was pure automatic reflex) in unswerving support of Administration policies...
...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...
...said that the U.S. will have to go far and fast before it catches up on social progress, social reform and the common understanding and working partnership between the richer and poorer classes which has been England's by-product of the war. Then Norris very simply thanked Guffey and all who "have said so many nice things about me" and sat down. He wasn't crying. He was more determined than ever...