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...since last Feb. 5 when the President called for Court Reform, the moment that meant the final decision in the bitterest legislative battle of a decade. In an instant, the Senate was in an uproar. Loudest voice in the tumult of shouts and laughter was Pennsylvania's Guffey, last-ditch supporter of the President's demand for more Justices, slamming his desk with the palm of his hand to get attention and crying, "Mr. President, Mr. President, I want to be recorded as voting against this Bill...
...conference report on the War Department Appropriation bill to be made to the Senate. Senator Clark quickly made the point of order that since Mr. Minton had yielded for other than a question, his second opportunity to speak was ended and he must thereafter hold his peace. Senator Guffey was in the chair and for 20 minutes a desperate parliamentary wrangle raged. Then Senator Pittman returned to the chair and ruled that Mr. Minton was within his rights, could continue to speak. This was far closer to steamroller tactics than the U. S. Senate usually sees. Many of the elder...
...were talking about irresponsible union officials," continued Senator Guffey. "Maybe that's one reason your employes don't want a verbal agreement with you, feeling that if you would give confidential information you aren't responsible either...
...inadequacies of Herbert Hoover, then fell under the spell of an errant Philadelphia socialite, William Christian ("Bill") Bullitt. Thereafter his march down the sawdust trail broke into a run. With his Main Line friends he was in disgrace, but soon he was making other friends, Oilman Joseph F. Guffey, boss of Pennsylvania's Demo-cratic machine; David Leo Lawrence, a practical politician born in Pittsburgh's Old Point section down near the conflux of the Monongahela and the Allegheny; Julius David Stern, radical Jewish publisher of Philadelphia's Record. These gentlemen could hardly help noticing Convert Earle...
Boom. The smart board of political strategy which has advised Governor Earle consists of Senator Guffey and of David L. Lawrence, who is the Governor's Secretary of the Commonwealth and patronage dispenser. Although Mr. Guffey bosses the machine, Governor Earle does not always obey him. This year, for example, he backed a bill for adding an extra brakeman to freight and passenger train crews. Labor wanted it but Senator Guffey, who is campaigning for lower freight rates on coal, opposed it. With the aid of David Lawrence, the Governor got the Legislature to pass...