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Senator-elect Guffey's men took one vote which pledged their 23 votes to Candidate Byrns. Beaming, "Joe" Byrns went into their caucus to thank them. "This," he asserted, "absolutely assures my election...
...words signaled a free track ahead for the Speakership race. Boss Joseph F (for nothing) Guffey of Pennsylvania presently turned up in Washington and called on Vice President Garner for the unconventional purpose of presenting his own credentials as Senator-elect from Pennsylvania. But Mr. Guffey did not go to Washington alone. He took with him his political manager, David L. Lawrence, and the whole House delegation of 23 Democrats elected from Pennsylvania last month...
...Capitol Boss Guffey herded them all together for a lesson in practical politics. As newcomers to Congress most of them could not expect much immediate preferment but Mr. Guffey pointed out that for them to get their due and perhaps a little more their best course was to stand and deliver their votes in a body. Twenty-three votes from Pennsylvania would put Representative Byrns into the Speakership when Congress meets Jan. 3 and for that each member of the delegation would undoubtedly get his reward in terms of good committee assignments...
Famed among oil companies for financial stability, Gulf's capital stock consists of 4,538,000 shares, of which 90% are owned by the House of Mellon. The Mellons started Gulf Oil in 1901 with Pennsylvania's James Guffey, uncle of U. S. Senator-elect Joseph Guffey. It was then called the J. M. Guffey Petroleum Co. Guffey Petroleum went into the red when its wells in the fabulous Texas Spindletop field turned to water. By 1913 the Mellons had built Gulf Oil into a dividend-paying property. By 1929 its net income had averaged $25,000,000 a year...
...chill morning last week the ranking Democrats of Pennsylvania halted election celebrations to journey to a slag-piled hill near the town of McAdoo. There Governor-elect George H. Earle stood beside a freshly-turned grave. There, too, stood Senator-elect Joseph F. Guffey, Democratic State Chairman David Lawrence, onetime Commonwealth Secretary Richard J. Beamish. Presently 10,000 mourners gathered from nearby towns, began to chant the Requiem responses in a half-dozen tongues as three obscure men were laid to rest. The dead buried, a handful of women surged around Governor-elect Earle to scream in Italian...