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...Dealers rallied or split right down this line. Montana's Murray, Florida's Pepper, Indiana's Minton, Washington's Schwellenbach, Pennsylvania's Guffey, Illinois' Lucas, New Jersey's Smathers-every man-jack a 100% New Dealer, and every one the beneficiary or sponsor of a State machine-bitterly fought the pure-politics bill...
...years ago brisk, paunchy Senator Joseph F. Guffey lost his grip on the Pennsylvania Democratic machine, which he had carefully tooled along through long years jammed with hostile Republican traffic. Instead of climbing down with a grin, he cocked a snook at the machine's new leaders, put up a ticket...
Result: the Democrats, split, lost the State, and bumbling Republican Arthur James took over the political mess known as Pennsylvania. This year Joe Guffey, to whom unkind fellows refer as "the greatest Democratic Senator from Pennsylvania in 60 years,"* is in an exceedingly tough spot. First, he must be nominated, and the machine leaders he defied two years ago will have none of him. Last week the Democratic State Committee met in Harrisburg to pick a candidate to succeed Joe. From Washington came hurried word that another wide-open Democratic split would be disastrous. So, after whooping through a Roosevelt...
...Received the following Third Termites: Pennsylvania's Senator Guffey (who also paid no attention to John Lewis) ; Norman Littell (Assistant Attorney General) and Marshall Dimock (Second Assistant Secretary of Labor), whom John Lewis denounced last year for conniving to put the President up again...
...Deal objectives. To Boss Pew and associated fat cats who run the G. O. P. in Pennsylvania, this sounded alarmingly like rank liberalism. So they bundled Dave Reed back on to his shelf, chose safe and soundless Jay Cooke IV to go up against Democratic Senator Joe Guffey next November...