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Democratic voters picked (387,000-to-99,000) State Boss Joseph Guffey over Roland Sletor Morris, onetime Ambassador to Japan, to run for Senator. George Howard Earle 3rd of Philadelphia easily won the Democratic nomination for Governor...
Meanwhile Boss Guffey hurried to the White House. There he took out pencil and paper, added his votes to Pinchot's votes, threw in, for no good reason, Roland Morris' votes and was able to show the President that the Pennsylvania primaries had really been a great "liberal" victory since the total overwhelmed Reed's ballots...
...could have whatever he wanted. Month ago a dinner was given for him in Philadelphia, at which such speakers as Henry Morgenthau Sr., Frank Comerford Walker, executive director of the President's National Emergency Council, Mint Directress Nellie Tayloe Ross, Internal Revenue Commissioner Guy T. Helvering, Joseph F. Guffey, Pittsburgh Democratic boss, and many another bigwig paid him tribute. The President sent a special message by Mr. Walker: "Please convey my best wishes . . . particularly to my good friend, the honored guest, Eddie Dowling." Last week Mr. Gerry said nothing, and Howard McGrath, Rhode Island Democratic Chairman, did not scoff...
...Attorney General William A. Schnader, endorsed by the Mellon-Vare machine. His motto: "I refuse to sell you a gold brick." Among the rash of twelve other Republican candidates, most promising was Lieut. Governor Edward C. Shannon, a conservative out-state farmer with veteran backing. For Senator, Joseph Guffey, Democratic boss of the state, was whooping up his own candidacy. In 1890 he went to Princeton, met and admired Woodrow Wilson, made money in oil in Pittsburgh. He persuaded John Jacob Raskob that he could carry his state for Smith in 1928 with half a million dollars. He lost...
...good chance of being Pennsylvania's first Democratic Senator since President Hayes's time, he would not be running for the nomination. Only man of prominence in the field against Boss Guffey is Roland Sletor Morris, onetime Ambassador to Japan, Philadelphia lawyer, professor of international law at the University of Pennsylvania and president of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. Lawyer Morris' style is cramped because he was distinctly not a "For Roosevelt Before Chicago" man. Widest primary breach exists between Governor Pinchot and David Aiken Reed, fighting to succeed himself as Pennsylvania's senior Republican Senator. Before...