Word: martins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last winter they were startled more than ever. The moment that his old mentor, Senator Martin, began sniping at the flanks of ERP, Duff rose up before a Temple University audience to throw his full weight behind the Marshall Plan. He jarred the old guard again by warning a P.M.A. dinner that the way to start fighting inflation was by cutting back prices. When he let it be known that he was getting ready to swing his convention support behind a candidate of his own choosing, the regulars reached for their knives...
Incongruous Alliance. Just before Pennsylvania's presidential primaries last April, they struck. Their campaign took the form of a heavily financed write-in drive for Favorite Son Ed Martin, and a hardhitting attack on Duff's State Chairman...
...election day Ed Martin ran third, behind both Harold Stassen and Tom Dewey, as a presidential favorite. Duff's man Taylor squeaked by with a 1,199-vote majority. Throughout the state the returns put Duff more securely in the saddle than ever...
...Stick. By last week the battle lines were drawn. Mason Owlett threw in the full weight of the P.M.A. coffers. No Pennsylvania manufacturer went uncalled, no weight of pressure on wavering delegates went unused. Ed Martin had been independent of Joe Grundy when he was governor. But now, through him, Grundy and Owlett cocked the big stick of federal patronage. A Republican President would have 101,000 federal jobs to distribute in the state (though many of them were under civil service). U.S. Senator Ed Martin would be the man to parcel them...
...real love is the country and he spends at least half of the year at the governor's summer home, built by Ed Martin on the military reservation at Indiantown Gap. With his wife and their two dogs Jim Duff patrols the grounds inspecting the new tree plantings which are his pride. Unpretentious and homespun, Jim Duff has only one ambition: "To get something started in Pennsylvania which they'll be afraid to wash out when I leave here two years from...