Word: owlett
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. G. (for Gilbert) Mason Owlett, 64, jowly, mossbacked lieutenant of Pennsylvania's old Republican boss. Senator Joe Grundy, onetime (1933-41) state senator and Republican National Committeeman, who in 1943 took over his mentor's Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association (which for years ran two insurance companies, a dozen state senators and some 50 representatives, held the balance of political power in the state); of a pulmonary embolism; in Philadelphia...
...sometimes he was a Duffman, sometimes he courted the P.M.A. By this year, he had retired, sulking, to his ivory tower in Harrisburg. Meanwhile, the P.M.A. was not what it used to be; Joe Grundy, 91, had retired after half a century of politics, and his successor, G. Mason Owlett, did not have the master's touch. When Owlett, the Blue Bell Boys and the other...
Lloyd Wood was presented as a "harmony" candidate, agreeable to all factions of Pennsylvania Republicans, from Duff to Owlett. But he had no organization, no campaign director, and the guidance he got from the headless group of bosses was conflicting and shifting. At first he was to be dignified, and act like a statesman. Later in the campaign, he was ordered to attack the Democrats. In the end, he was to be constructive. When Wood invaded Pittsburgh, where Dave Lawrence's unpopular wage tax was a sitting duck, Wood ignored Lawrence, overlooked the burning issue. When Leader challenged...
...vowed that he would not support a candidate of the faction headed by Governor John Fine and National Committeeman Mason Owlett. When names were suggested, Duff would bless no one except his old friend, Lieut. Governor Lloyd Wood, 56. It was assumed that Fine, Owlett & Co. would refuse to back Wood, and then Jim would hear a clear call to "save the party" by running himself...
Last week Fine, Owlett, State Chairman M. Harvey Taylor and other big shots in Pennsylvania Republicanism (but not Duff) gathered in Philadelphia's Penn Sheraton Hotel to pick a candidate for governor. After 3½ hours, they announced their choice: portly, thunderous Lloyd Wood. In Washington, Big Red acted pleased and allowed, "His candidacy is agreeable to me in every...