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...There was Alf Landon, John Hamilton, Joseph Pew, Senator Nye and the Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith; and, of course, the metropolitan McCormick-Patterson newspaper axis. They were loud. They were angry. They indulged in much loose talk. . . . These political locusts had nothing to say. . . . [They are] discredited mouthpieces of reaction. . . . They simply agreed in their hatred of the outstanding Republican of our time-Wendell Willkie...
When chipper, billiards-playing Graham Creighton Patterson* stepped in to run the Farm Journal in 1935 (backed by the copious cash of arch-Republicans Joseph and Howard Pew), its circulation was clotted at 1,100.000, its size at 16 to 18 pages. Its bookkeeping was done in red. This month's 72-page Farm Journal and Farmer's Wife (wed in 1939) went to more than 2,700,000 subscribers, and Patterson chalked his cue for a long reverse shot. Success had frozen his cue ball fast against the paper shortage...
...BYRD: "He [Guffey] charged that: a) northern Republicans, under the leadership of Joe Pew, and southern Democrats, under the leadership of Harry Byrd had conspired to deprive the armed services of America of the right to vote; and b) that this alleged conspiracy was the 'most unpatriotic and unholy alliance that has occurred in the United States Senate since the League of Nations for peace of the world was defeated...
...Senate to answer an attack made upon me, but never in my ten years of service in the Senate has the provocation been so great. . . . There is not one iota of truth in a single part of the statement made by Guffey. ... I do not even know Joe Pew, and never had any communication with...
...charge that northern Republicans, under Pew, and southern Democrats under me, adopted the Eastland-McKellar-McClellan voting bill is, on the record itself completely inaccurate. ... Of the 42 votes cast in favor of this legislation, 17 were cast by southern Democrats and six by northern Republicans, making a total of 23 or less than one-third of those Senators voting. The balance of 19 votes came from four northern Democrats, three western Democrats, and twelve western Republicans...