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Pennsylvania. In 1928 State Boss Joseph Francis Guffey thought he could carry Pennsylvania for the Brown Derby if National Boss John Jacob Raskob would give him $500,000 for the campaign. Boss Raskob put up the cash and Pennsylvania, as usual, crashed Republican. This year Boss Guffey thought he could get himself elected to the Senate if National Boss Franklin D. Roosevelt would help him. The President helped, to the tune of a White House luncheon at which Pennsylvania was promised all kinds of good things under the New Deal (TIME, Nov. 5). Result: Boss Guffey became the first Democrat...
...Reed personified to Roosevelt Democrats all the things the New Deal was against. Capitalizing to the limit on Roosevelt prestige and brazenly comparing the $678,000,000 poured into his State as relief and loans by the Roosevelt Administration to the $12,000,000 by the Hoover Administration, Democrat Guffey went about Pennsylvania lauding the President as "God's inspired servant." Even the belated and not altogether convincing support of Governor Pinchot for the G. 0. P. ticket could not save Senator Reed. As Senator-elect Guffey was loudly and truthfully proclaiming his success as a Roosevelt victory, Senator...
...Montana *Wheeler Bourquin 325 of 713 17,285 8,924 New Jersey Moore *Kean 702 of 3,425 17,119 12,481 New York *Copeland Cluett 4934 of 8947 1,416,972 691,037 Ohio Donahey *Fess 609 of 8,559 41,103 27,827 Pennsylvania Guffey *Reed 4128 of 7956 792,911 803,594 Rhode Island Gerry *Herbert 90 of 232 36,308 37,523 Utah *King Colton 75 of 561 8,932 6,425 Vermont Martin *Austin 89 of 248 11,047 16,293 Virginia *Byrd Page 1142 of 1742 84,000 23,000 Wisconsin Callahan Chapple...
...Senator Reed for the Republican Senate nomination last spring (TIME, May 28). There was talk of Governor Pinchot running independently, of his handsome, redhaired wife running for him. Such a ticket would have seriously threatened the State G. O. P.'s chances in November, probably given Democrat Guffey a walkaway...
...Hurja first bet Mr. Huntley a hat that Democratic Nominee Joseph Guffey would beat Senator Reed this autumn in Pennsylvania. Next time they met, Republican Huntley raised the bet a pair of shoes. Later Mr. Hurja bumped the stakes a couple of shirts and Mr. Huntley came back with some neckties. By last week the bet covered nearly a full wardrobe, which Mr. Hurja stood in imminent danger of losing to Mr. Huntley...