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Boss: 1940 Type. Joe Pew, vice president of the $146,431,484 Sun Oil Co., the latest in the line of Pennsylvania bosses, is unlike these political ancestors in every respect but one: he too thinks the salvation of the U. S. is bound up with the Republican Party. (It is no contradiction in fact that he would accept, and be happy under, John Nance Garner as President.) Like his predecessors, Joe Pew is spending pots of money to bring about a G. O. P. victory. Unlike them, he spends his own money. Since 1934 Joe Pew and his immediate...
...previous protectors of Pennsylvania were all take and no give; Boss Pew is just the opposite. This difference was important to all U. S. citizens last week, will be important to them from now on. For Mr. Pew is likely to have veto power on the G. O. P.'s Presidential nominee this year, and 1940, except for Franklin Roosevelt, daily looks more & more like a Republican year. Boss Pew has one major requirement of the GOPresidential nominee: he must damn the New Deal wholeheartedly...
...Pew family emerged in Titusville, Pa. in 1874, when Mary Anderson, whose family had pioneered in the oil fields, married Joseph Newton Pew (Welsh-English-Scottish-Irish, with a dash of Dutch and Palatinate blood), descendant of pre-Revolutionary traders, who had religious scruples against selling Indians fire water. After a massacre of settlers at Bushy Run, the early Pews developed practical scruples against selling Indians powder & shot. These scruples brought trade to a standstill, and the Pews became farmers. In 1859 they got in on Pennsylvania's first oil boom, struck it rich, stayed that way. Joseph Pew...
...road in Venezuela. During World War I he joined Sun Oil's Philadelphia office as aide to Elder Brother John Howard, who is a little taller, greyer, soberer. In 1916 Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. had been founded in Chester, Pa. largely to build oil tankers. Under shrewd Pew management Sun Shipbuilding became one of the biggest of its kind; money rolled in. Joe Pew married a Philadelphia girl, Alberta Hensel, quietly joined social life along the Main Line, raised a healthy brood, settled in swank Ardmore...
Education. Boss Pew still winces when he recalls that he "fell for" Franklin Roosevelt in 1932. He continued to support the New Deal until NRA tried to fix oil prices and regulate the ruggedly individualistic oil industry. This was too much for Joe Pew. Said he: "Price-fixing is an evil, wicked thing." Every time the price of gasoline is raised 1?, he figures, exactly 6¼% of the total business dries up. He believes that price-fixing and production-curtailment, beyond ordinary conservation, are sins against God and Nature...