Word: pews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That lesson cost Joe Pew an estimated $200,000, taught him never to go away till an election was safely over. In 1936 he had another setback as he helplessly watched Kansas' Alf Landon become the G. O. P. choice; loyally he bought tons of sun flower badges, tons of propaganda; bitterly he heard gentle Mr. Landon soft-pedal attacks on the New Deal. Today mention of Alf Landon is likely to make Mr. Pew sneer: "Is he a Republican...
Professional. Two zeros in two innings only got Boss Pew's blood up. The turning tide of 1937's Supreme Court reorganization bill, the sit-down strikes, 1938's purge campaign, stiffened his sinews. For Governor of Pennsylvania Mr. Pew settled on an undersized, sorrel-shagged, boom-voiced judge from the hard coal fields, Arthur H. James, the Welsh "breaker...
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...