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...years ago, opposing factions of the Democratic Party in Pennsylvania thought they saw a chance for compromise if they would get Joseph F. Guffey out of the U. S. Senate. "I need Joe Guffey in the Senate," said President Roosevelt. "I suggest you leave him there." They did. Political war continued to rage in Pennsylvania. Last week, John B. Kelly, chairman of the Philadelphia Democratic Committee, went to the President to suggest a peace formula: get Joe Guffey not to run again for the Senate...
Pennsylvania's Senator Guffey left the White House predicting that Pennsylvania's wealthy ex-Governor, liberal George Earle, would soon be appointed to a post abroad, would not say where. "Ireland," said everybody else. As a Governor's wife, Mrs. Earle (see cut) said of her husband, "His career is my whole life, but I want to stay in the background...
Other investigations-monopoly, petroleum, tax revision, banking, forestry, fisheries, wild animal life-will play to smaller houses. Biggest show of all would have been the proposed investigation into the alleged Mexican oil dealings of Pennsylvania's onetime oilman, Senator Joe Guffey. In announcing the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee's decision to quash the investigation, Senator Connally of Texas wisecracked: "We've just dry-cleaned Joe." == Call for this inquiry arose from stories written by top-flight Reporter Marquis Childs in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and by pretty Ruth Sheldon in the Saturday Evening Post. Mr. Guffey...
...Received from New Hampshire's misfiring Senator Bridges notice that he would ask an investigation of Mexico's seizures of U. S. oil properties. Over angry Democratic protests Republican Bridges read aloud "weird" newspaper stories hooking up the name of Pennsylvania's Senator Guffey with sales of oil from the seized properties. Mr. Guffey visited Mexico just before seizures began. Said Mr. Guffey "I have no objection ... I have nothing to conceal...
...Jersey's Senator Smathers, Pennsylvania's Senator Guffey, Delaware's Senator Hughes announced they are Third-Termites. Indiana's Senator Van Nuys announced...