Word: matthews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Attorney General Charles Joseph Margiotti is running independently for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination and, feeling a bit like a wall flower with no one slinging any dirt in his direction, he started slinging on his own. Candidate Margiotti charged that Philadelphia's Contractor-Boss Matthew H. McCloskey and Secretary of State David Lawrence in 1935 obtained a $20,000 bribe for supporting legislation favorable to Pennsylvania brewers. Although Mr. Margiotti solemnly declared that the voters should not think for a moment that his old friend Governor George Howard Earle III had anything to do with the matter, the Governor...
...Matthew H. McCloskey Jr. did not rise from boyhood poverty in West Virginia to wealth and power in Pennsylvania by wasting dollars or handshakes on nonentities. He bows low to the right people, bids low on the right jobs. His perspicacity in switching from the Republican to the Democratic trough in 1932 also has contributed materially to his emergence as Pennsylvania's Public Contractor No. 1. To Pennsylvanians born & bred in gutter politics, it therefore seems perfectly natural that blue-eyed Little Matt should draw first mud in this State's muddled Democratic primary campaign...
...knowingly inquired: 1) whether Governor Earle had borrowed $30,000 from Little Matt; 2) how many millions of dollars worth of State contracts had been awarded to Contractor McCloskey; and 3) how many McCloskey men the State had appointed to inspect McCloskey jobs. From Harrisburg hapless Debtor Earle replied: "Matthew H. McCloskey has been one of my personal friends. ... As my friend, he made several loans to me during the years 1935 and 1936, prior to the time when it was within any possible contemplation that he would ever be the recipient of any State contract. These loans have been...
...POLITICOS-Matthew Josephson- Harcourt, Brace...
Last week, with The Politicos, Matthew Josephson joined the ranks of the puzzlers. His contribution was a 760-page volume that attempted a dual task: 1) to trace the careers of the Democratic and Republican parties through the four decades after the Civil War; 2) to draw a composite portrait of the professional politicians, party leaders, spoilsmen, local bosses...