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...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...
...Guffey Coal Bill...
...Deal regulation of coal began with NRA, died in the Schechter chicken coop. The first coal regulation act (Guffey Act) passed with the help of a strike threat by John L. Lewis in 1935, was knocked out by the Supreme Court a year later. The second act, passed in 1937, created a National Bituminous Coal Commission, which at once tangled itself so thoroughly in politics that Franklin Roosevelt reorganized it out of existence and turned its job over to the Department of the Interior. There for nearly a year Director Howard Adams Gray and his able General Counsel Abe Fortas...