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...definite conclusion could be made last week on the Republican race: either Kansas' Alf Landon or Pennsylvania's Joe Pew could make Tom Dewey's nomination certain. Last week neither boss was so disposed...
Price. For his political power, Joseph Pew is paying a high price, not measurable in the $2,000,000-plus which he has given his party in the last six years. Scorned by his party's liberals, he is held up in the U. S. Senate as the personification of corrupt politics. Last week Wendell Willkie (see p. 19) told a Philadelphia reporter: "I don't know Joe Pew but I am 100% against his policy of turning the Republican Party back to the days of Harding and Coolidge...
...Boss Pew went on raking in money from oil wells and shipyards, shoveling it out to heelers and henchmen. Said he last week, as he often has before: "You can't get votes by advertising for them." In Sun Oil Co. there is prosperity, despite that man in the White House. Sun Oil's policy is generally anti-union but pro-employe ; there has never been a layoff. The wages of its 15,000 employes have steadily been increased, and the company has been in the van of technological progress in the oil industry...
...Pew's main job these days is poli tics, not business, and it is a fulltime job. When he can get away from his political muttons he likes to go to his magnificent 1,500-acre Warwick Farms in upper Chester County, where every prospect pleases...
...looked over his stable of superb working Percherons (sired by mighty Fallowfield Buck, a pedigreed stallion bought from his friend Lammot du Pont) ; Brandy, his big Virginia hunter, favorite of his stables; dozens of new calves; his herd's milking records. He lunched with kindly, pretty Mrs. Pew in the mansion-house-a broad, yellowstone Pennsylvania farmhouse with a vast fireplace, beamed ceilings, wide-board floors. Over the rolling, spring-green hills he looked and said, with his quick, humorless smile: "I get about three tons of manure off the pasture every year. The New Deal...