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...remained for Bethlehem's Eugene Grace, who also heads the Steel Institute, to cover the whole field of steel antagonism toward the New Deal. He lashed out at the Banking Bill, the Public Utility Bill, the Social Security Bill, the Guffey Coal Bill, the 30-hour-week Bill. "It is about time we had a little old-fashioned economy, that we encouraged efficiency and thrift," cried the steelmaster who received a $1,600,000 bonus...
Even as Father Coughlin spoke the telegrams were flooding into Washington. Messengers carted them by wheelbarrow loads to the Senate Office Building. Pennsylvania's Davis and Guffey were enjoined to vote against the Court by the Squirrel Hill Station, Pa. Sunday School. As the flood mounted Western Union was forced to hire 35 extra clerks, Postal Telegraph...
...Actress Bankhead had wanted to thank someone for "Daddy's" elevation to the No. 2 position in the Democratic House organization, Senator Joseph F. Guffey of Pennsylvania would have been the man. Last month Boss Guffey clinched last week's election of Tennessee's gawky, bush-browed Joseph Wellington Byrns to the Speakership by pledging the solid vote of Pennsylvania's 23 Democratic Representatives to his candidacy. Last week Senator Guffey again showed what a power he was in the chamber at the other end of the Capitol from the one in which he officially functions...
...reason of his political triumphs on Election Day and in the choice of Speaker and Majority Leader of the House, Senator Guffey harvested the reward of power. One of his followers was made Democratic whip of the House and another was put on the important Ways & Means Committee. And Joe Guffey himself got a seat on the equally potent Senate Finance Committee...
...Naval Affairs; McSwain of South Carolina, Military Affairs; Mansfield of Texas. Rivers & Harbors; Rankin of Mississippi, Veterans; Bankhead of Alabama, Rules. In the next House, however, some two-thirds of the 322 Democrats will come from the North and West and they, too, would like some plums. Shrewd Mr. Guffey, who always likes to play a winner, announced that he would keep his 23 Pennsylvania votes in his pocket until the leadership contest "clarifies...