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...promise. His voting record, which has hopped back & forth over the New Deal fence, can be classified as either independent or puzzling. He has voted against such New Deal measures as gold devaluation, NIRA, the Black 30-Hour-Week Bill, TVA, AAA (both 1935 and 1938), Soil Conservation, the Guffey Coal Act, Wages & Hours. But he stood with the New Deal on both the bills Franklin Roosevelt chose to regard as tests of Roosevelt liberalism, Reorganization and the Supreme Court Bill, which Bulkley defended over a nation-wide radio hookup. For this service he received a brief Presidential endorsement...
...Wreathed in smiles but distressed at heart, Governor George Howard Earle of Pennsylvania (candidate for the Senate), Senator Joseph F. Guffey and all the principal Democratic candidates for State offices called on Franklin Roosevelt to be photographed with him for campaign purposes. They denied that they had begged him to go into Pennsylvania, make a speech, help them win. Pennsylvania's Supreme Court had put Earle on a spot by declaring unconstitutional two Earle acts in evasion of grave graft charges against his administration: 1) giving his heavily Democratic legislature priority over grand juries in such cases; 2) suspending...
Libel. For harassed old Moe Annenberg, the week's woes reached a climax when Senator Joseph F. Guffey singled him out for unmeasured denunciation in a campaign speech over Station WFIL. When an advance summary of the speech reached the Inquirer's offices, Annenberg attorneys tried frantically to prevent its delivery. Next morning, swashbuckling Moe made news indeed when, unmindful of political and journalistic tradition, he sued for libel Senator Guffey, Station WFIL and its president, Samuel R. Rosenbaum; Mr. Stern and the Record, which published the full text of the speech...
When Franklin Roosevelt introduced him at Denton, Md. last week as the "father" of Social Security, Workmen's Compensation and Parcel Post, the President barely sketched his works. David Lewis also: got labor unions exempted from the anti-trust laws; wrote the guts of the Guffey-Snyder coal act; handled telephones & telegraphs during the War- (and would have been President Wilson's Postmaster General but for political exigencies); has fought Inflation and the Bonus. Churchmouse poor, erudite and intellectually passionate, he dares to do what other Congressmen would tremble at: shut himself up in his office and refuse...
...After being Speaker in the Legislature and State Senator he went to Congress, to the U. S. Senate in 1927. His voting record suggests eccentricity yet shows a pattern: against war, racial injustice, Prohibition, Bonus, tariffs & embargoes, depreciated currency. War debts. He voted against the Wagner Act, the Guffey Coal Act, the Utilities bill, AAA, TVA, NRA, Cotton Control; for SEC, Neutrality, Pump Priming, fathered the Miller-Tydings Act for price control of trademarked goods. In this campaign, his most vulnerable spot is his failure to vote on Social Security...