Word: pennsylvania
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Other investigations-monopoly, petroleum, tax revision, banking, forestry, fisheries, wild animal life-will play to smaller houses. Biggest show of all would have been the proposed investigation into the alleged Mexican oil dealings of Pennsylvania's onetime oilman, Senator Joe Guffey. In announcing the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee's decision to quash the investigation, Senator Connally of Texas wisecracked: "We've just dry-cleaned Joe." == Call for this inquiry arose from stories written by top-flight Reporter Marquis Childs in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and by pretty Ruth Sheldon in the Saturday Evening Post. Mr. Guffey...
...Gallup polls revealed that voters in Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois favor a Republican victory in 1940 by 52%-54%. From 54% to 65% of those polled in these States said they would vote against Franklin Roosevelt if he runs...
...from nearby Chatham, bought it for $4. It was jet black and "smooth as velvet" on one side, heavily "thumb-marked" on the other. Soon he had a score of offers for it-$200 from the University of Toronto, lesser sums from the Smithsonian Institution, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Western Ontario in London. "Numerous private collectors have standing offers in for it," said Dr. Smith, "but only one man has come close." Speculator Smith decided his prize was worth $10 a pound, demanded $800 or more...
...Received from New Hampshire's misfiring Senator Bridges notice that he would ask an investigation of Mexico's seizures of U. S. oil properties. Over angry Democratic protests Republican Bridges read aloud "weird" newspaper stories hooking up the name of Pennsylvania's Senator Guffey with sales of oil from the seized properties. Mr. Guffey visited Mexico just before seizures began. Said Mr. Guffey "I have no objection ... I have nothing to conceal...
...believes that the "magic touch of par" corrupted business in the booming 20s. "Par," he says, "is just as destructive on Pennsylvania Avenue as it was in Wall Street. Par goes to men's heads. When you see the bust of Napoleon on the desk of a businessman, you'd better get out quick and sell him short. The same goes for Government officials...