Word: pews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bands playing everywhere, always, and coming at delegates from all directions; 1,900 U. S. flags hoisted by the city of Philadelphia; a reading clerk, tuned up for the hurly-burly by practicing 30 minutes daily in a soundproof garage, reading Elaine's oration on Garfield; Boss Joe Pew saying, "I am for Governor James until hell freezes over or until we reach the 252nd ballot" - interpreted as meaning that he had switched to Willkie, Dewey, or Taft; Candidate Taft three hours late for his first press conference (Was he making a deal? Had he simply overslept?); Candidate Dewey...
...know Mr. Joseph Newton Pew Jr. [TIME, May 6] and it is most unlikely that we shall ever meet. We do not move in the same circles, so to speak, which is, incidentally, more my hard luck than...
...number of enlisted men of this battalion are employees of the Sun Shipbuilding Co. It is noteworthy that, no matter how busy the ship building company may be when this battalion is ordered away for its two weeks' field training, every one of Mr. Pew's employees always goes and receives full pay from the company. It seems too bad that there are not more such employers...
...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...
...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...