Word: joes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pennsylvania. Franklin Roosevelt recently said that Pennsylvania's Democratic primary campaign reminded him of Dante's Inferno. Suave Democratic State Chairman David Lawrence had refused to support the United Mine Workers' Secretary, Thomas Kennedy, for Governor. So Senator Joe Guffey and Miner John L. Lewis formed an alliance to unseat the regular Democratic organization. Not only did Guffey-Lewis back Miner Kennedy against the organization's gubernatorial candidate, a mild, mustached Pittsburgh lawyer named Charles Alvin Jones. They also supported Philadelphia's mud-slinging ex-Republican Mayor Samuel Davis Wilson against Governor George Earle...
Primary portents: 1) Joe Guffey's control of 6,000 Federal jobs plus his much mooted control over 230,000 WPA jobs is still no match for the regular organization controlling 27,000 State jobs. 2) John L. Lewis' 800,000 C. I. O. enrollment in Pennsylvania produced only 520,000 Kennedy votes. 3) Republicans in re-nominating Senator James J. ("Puddler Jim") Davis and nominating Judge Arthur H. James for Governor over 72-year-old Gifford Pinchot cast 135,000 more votes than Democrats...
Last week, a crowd of 22,234-more than twice as many as turned out to see World Champion Joe Louis defend his title against Harry Thomas last month- trooped into the Chicago Stadium. What they had come to see were the international matches between the Chicago Golden Glovers (who defeated the New York Golden Glovers in the annual inter-city championships two months ago) and a picked team of European amateurs. The Chicago team of eight (topnotchers in each of the eight divisions of pugilism) were the survivors of 23,000 aspirants from 26 midwestern and southern States...
...Princeton in the Joe Wright regatta they learned a bitter lesson when they lost to the Bulldog boatsmen in the finals after having won by a length over the same crew in the qualifying heats...
Things are not so good for the Old Woman either. Last year Joe Nuelle left her to become president of Lehigh Coal & Navigation Co. and shortly afterward, she filed under Section 77 of the Bankruptcy Act. There is another rumor around the Stock Exchange and roundhouses: She may be divided up piece by piece among other Eastern roads, and a large piece will go to Delaware & Hudson...