Word: jim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That was no sudden, theoretician's conclusion. Big Jim had come up through the brawling competition of the wildcat oilfields; his roots were deep in Pennsylvania history. One of his ancestors was a member of William Penn's Council. His grandfather was one of the first to strike oil in western Pennsylvania...
When his old friend Ed Martin asked him to help with the Martin campaign for governor in 1942, Jim Duff had long been neck-deep in Pennsylvania politics. As a delegate to the state convention in 1912, he helped swing Pennsylvania away from William Howard Taft and into Teddy Roosevelt's Bull Moose herd. He was a constant rebel against Joe Grundy's local and state machines; he remains a Bull Mooser to this...
...Jim Duff shot back: "Do the job yourselves before I've got to put the iron...
Despite such run-ins, when it came time to pick a successor for able Governor Ed Martin, the party's bigwigs settled on Big Jim. After a long, weary afternoon's session in the Hotel Hershey, the bosses could still not decide between four other entries. Finally, in a moment of unguarded weariness, Joe Pew pointed to Duff: "That redheaded s.o.b. ought to be the candidate. I called him about it a few days ago and he told me to go to hell...
...Free Seats. Go-slow Grundymen, alarmed by such sudden changes, began to eye the state capital with increasing suspicion. When Jim Duff presented his bill, they yowled for vengeance. To raise an extra $133 million in state revenue he increased cigarette taxes from 2? to 4? a pack, slapped new taxes on beer (½? pint) and soft drinks (1? per 12 ounces). Then he prevented repeal of the five-mill tax levied on manufacturers' capital stocks and franchises...