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...Horace James. Freckly, redhaired, 100% reactionary, Pennsylvania's G. O. P. Governor James, 56, is the ideal President to many Americans. A coal-mine breaker's boy, a small-town lawyer, a Methodist and 33rd degree Mason, he respects hard work, thrift, the Bible and Oilman Joe Pew; likes Welsh singing, duck-shooting, boiled dinners; wears high-top shoes with hooked laces; loathes progressivism in any form but the abstract. Yet there have been U. S. Presidents of less force than Mr. James...
...miscellaneous delegates, will be kept, if possible, from gaining votes for several ballots, until it is clear he cannot win. Then GOP liberals would hold their own version of the 1920 smoke-filled room (out of which came Warren G. Harding), will invite in Pennsylvania's Oilman Joe Pew, who also bosses Delaware's Du Pont Republicans. By maneuvering Mr. Pew, the liberals hope then to bring forth a really strong GOP 1940 ticket: i.e., Supreme Court Justices Owen Roberts or Harlan Stone to head it; perhaps Oregon's McNary or New York's Dewey...
Then he was taken in hand by Pennsylvania's Boss Joseph N. Pew. "Too bad, dear," said rich, beauteous Mrs. Jay Cooke IV when her husband was made chairman of the moribund Republican City Committee in Philadelphia. Unrecorded were Mrs. Cooke's remarks last week, when Boss Pew headed Jay Cooke toward the U. S. Senate...
...impregnable conservatism. Onetime (1922-35) Senator David A. Reed, by most standards a reactionary, was restless in retirement and pawing for a comeback. David Reed recently an nounced that, while he was dead against New Deal methods, he could see some good in New Deal objectives. To Boss Pew and associated fat cats who run the G. O. P. in Pennsylvania, this sounded alarmingly like rank liberalism. So they bundled Dave Reed back on to his shelf, chose safe and soundless Jay Cooke IV to go up against Democratic Senator Joe Guffey next November...
...chairman of National Steel, smartest little steelman in the U. S.; sleek, youngish Edgar Monsanto Queeny of Monsanto Chemical, whose dignified diversion is Republican politics (finance committee) in Democratic Missouri; scholarly Henning Webb Prentis Jr., president of Armstrong Cork, No. 1 U. S. linoleum producer; rock-ribbed John Howard Pew, president of Sun Oil Co., financial angel of the Republican Party in Pennsylvania; long-nosed Lammot du Pont, beardless patriarch of the U. S.'s most famed family industry; Du Pont-in-law Donaldson Brown, vice chairman, financial and labor policy man of General Motors; the retiring president...