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After Rogge's Swarthmore speech Pennsylvania Republicans gleefully recalled that pro-German Bill Davis once had connections with another prominent politico: Senator Joe Guffey, facing defeat...
Were the diners at the Union League deluding themselves? Not according to expert analysis (see below). The signs of a historic reversal were all around. By the most conservative estimate Ed Martin would beat old Senator Joe Guffey, slavish follower of his Democratic masters, by 200,000 votes. The margin might be a lot more than that. Ed would carry with him Pennsylvania's Attorney General James H. Duff, his own hand-picked candidate for governor. Of 33 Congressional seats, Pennsylvania's Republicans stood...
Almost everybody, Democrats and Republicans alike, conceded that Pennsylvania's earnest, able Governor Edward Martin would sweep out New Dealing Joe Guffey and that John Bricker would have an easy time in Ohio knocking off Democratic Senator James W. Huffman. Dopesters were also pretty sure that the Democrats would pick up a seat in Kentucky, which now has a Republican Senator only because of an interim appointment by its Republican Governor...
...some respects, it was even tougher than the House version which the Education and Labor Committee had tried to eviscerate. Committeemen like elderly Senator Elbert Thomas, James E. Murray, James M. Tunnell, Joseph Guffey, Claude Pepper, were routed. The driving forces were Senator Taft and Minnesota's Joe Ball, both pressing for permanent labor legislation which would correct the in equities of the well-meaning but lopsided Wagner...
...Guffey, who had twice ridden into the Senate on Franklin Roosevelt's vote appeal, now hoped that the state ticket would help carry him through. For a candidate for Governor, the Democrats settled on John Stanley Rice, former Air Forces colonel, a mild, well-to-do Gettysburg apple grower whose political star had never risen higher than the state Senate. For Secretary of Internal Affairs they found Colonel Rice a G.I. running mate: Philadelphia's blind hero Al Schmid, former Marine sergeant...