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...Section 208, Title 18 of the Federal criminal code declares it unlawful for any Senator, Representative, "officer or employee of the United States" to solicit political funds "from any other such officer, employee or person." Last week while Pennsylvania's Senator Guffey was in Europe, letters over his signature to all WPA workers in Pennsylvania (270,000 of them) solicited campaign funds. Chairman Sheppard of the Senate campaign funds committee said, "At first blush I can't see where this comes under our resolution." Then he blushed again, called a committee meeting to cogitate Senator Guffey...
...Earle & friends won the primaries.Mr. Margiotti & friends lost. Instead of making peace with GovernorEarle, like Senator Joe Guffey, Mr. Margiotti went to his Republican cronies in Dauphin County (Harrisburg) and got District Attorney Carl B. Shelley to start a Grand Jury investigation of the Earle regime. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court, 6-to-1 Republican, refused to halt this move. Governor Earle then turned to the General Assembly, Democratic by 150-to-53 in the House, 34-to-16 in the Senate. A special session would cost Pennsylvania's taxpayers anywhere from $300,000 to $750,000 but Governor Earle...
...legislative committee was scheduled to begin investigating. Probable result: vindication, deserved or whitewashed, of the Earle administration. Possible results: 1) the Supreme Court may declare one or more of the steamrollered Earle bills unconstitutional; 2) impeachment proceedings may be started against some members of the Supreme Court, who Senator Guffey last week said "debased themselves and their offices by accepting the equivalent of cash from the House of Morgan...
Pennsylvania. Franklin Roosevelt recently said that Pennsylvania's Democratic primary campaign reminded him of Dante's Inferno. Suave Democratic State Chairman David Lawrence had refused to support the United Mine Workers' Secretary, Thomas Kennedy, for Governor. So Senator Joe Guffey and Miner John L. Lewis formed an alliance to unseat the regular Democratic organization. Not only did Guffey-Lewis back Miner Kennedy against the organization's gubernatorial candidate, a mild, mustached Pittsburgh lawyer named Charles Alvin Jones. They also supported Philadelphia's mud-slinging ex-Republican Mayor Samuel Davis Wilson against Governor George Earle...
Primary portents: 1) Joe Guffey's control of 6,000 Federal jobs plus his much mooted control over 230,000 WPA jobs is still no match for the regular organization controlling 27,000 State jobs. 2) John L. Lewis' 800,000 C. I. O. enrollment in Pennsylvania produced only 520,000 Kennedy votes. 3) Republicans in re-nominating Senator James J. ("Puddler Jim") Davis and nominating Judge Arthur H. James for Governor over 72-year-old Gifford Pinchot cast 135,000 more votes than Democrats...