Word: martins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...once a real power but now a political has-been, privately favored Bob Taft. Philadelphia's ex-City Chairman Jay Cooke had a small handful of delegates lined up for Harold Stassen. National Committeewoman Mrs. Worthington Scranton was working feverishly for unity behind U.S. Senator Edward Martin-who would be the delegation's favorite-son choice on the first ballot...
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...
...Devil's Work? As Ed Martin's attorney general, he banged head-on into Joe Grundy's industrialists. Under Duff's urging, Ed Martin liberalized workmen's compensation and unemployment laws (which Joe Grundy and the P.M.A. have always considered the devil's work), pushed through a bill to curb the discharge of mine silt into the Schuylkill River. When mineowners protested, redheaded...
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...
...contains such material as Eugene O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms, Yeats's The Land of Heart's Desire, excerpts from André Gide's Journals. It contains masterpieces like Ivan Bunin's Gentleman from San Francisco and unfamiliar stories like Roger Martin Du Card's smoldering Confidence Africaine. Examples of the work of writers unknown in the U.S. (e.g., Chilean Poetess Gabriela Mistral and Finnish Novelist Frans Eemil Sillanpää) are alone enough to make it a valuable book...