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...Boss Pew had decided to hold a thrifty primary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PENNSYLVANIA: Mr. Pew at Valley Forge | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

Joseph Newton Pew Jr. is a new kind of boss for Pennsylvania-and the Keystone State has seen all kinds. Like his lusty, finagling predecessors, Joe Pew is in politics because he wants something. What makes Oilman Pew different is that all he wants is a Republican U. S. Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PENNSYLVANIA: Mr. Pew at Valley Forge | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

...Vares are out, Quay and Penrose are dead, Joe Grundy is superannuated. The man who ran the G. O. P. in Pennsylvania last week was Mr. Joseph Pew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PENNSYLVANIA: Mr. Pew at Valley Forge | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

...like an orchestra whose members were all reading from different scores, raised a cacophonous din. Sour was the note from Maryland, where Robert Alphonso Taft withdrew in pique before the rambunctious invasion of Tom Dewey. Liberal Republicans in the East, to whom the name of Pennsylvania Boss Joseph N. Pew Jr. is pure onomatopoeia, made beckoning sounds to a strayed Democrat, Wendell Willkie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: Republican Keynoter | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

...sense of humor, and the unqualified approval of two men who have none-Joseph Newton Pew Jr., vice president of Sun Oil Co., who has conducted a bitter, open-purse, one-family crusade against the New Deal for seven years, and thee-saying Quaker Joseph Ridgway Grundy, 77, proud since the turn of the century of his title as King of Lobbyists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PENNSYLVANIA: Tough Cooke | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

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