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Suddenly the after-dinner music in Pennsylvania Republican politics last week became as harmonious as Bach's Well-Tempered Clavichord. For the first time in 14 years or so, the quartet of Pew, Grundy, Martin and Davis was singing as one. The Irreconcilables had reconciled. But on no ear did the music fall sweeter than on that of handsome, handshaking Senator James John Davis. Puddler Jim was in the luck again...
...months Pennsylvania's Old Guard made no secret of its intent to scuttle Puddler Jim at the polls in the April party primary. The party's moneybags, Manufacturer Joe Grundy and Oilman Joe Pew, have a long-standing distaste for Puddler Jim. Only two years ago, 6-ft. Soldier Edward Martin and Puddler Jim were exhausting the vocabulary of political innuendo at each other in the race for Pennsylvania's Governorship. But last week Governor Martin had Puddler Jim over to dinner at the gloomy, gabled Governor's Mansion. They signed a truce. Puddler Jim, faced...
...before the New Deal tide really began to run in Pennsylvania. In 1938 he came back when the New Deal tide was ebbing and his Democratic opposition was split. Each time he won without the support of the State G.O.P. machine. Each time Pennsylvania's two Rich Joes-Pew and Grundy −were forced to sit back for another six-year wait to bash Puddler...
Perhaps their new harmony song stuck in the throats of Messrs. Pew and Grundy. But Puddler Jim's Welsh tenor came crashing through. He sang triumphantly last week: "I am willing to be a candidate for re-election...
...long as it was run by Spangler-type men. His Iowa friends have lately noticed in Anderson's "Out on the Acres" column a leaning toward conservatism, see election-year significance in his move to the rural journal of Philadelphia's Old Guardsmen Joseph and Howard Pew...