Word: pews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...Pew became convinced that the New Deal was a gigantic political scheme to raze U. S. business to a dead level and debase the citizenry into a mass of ballot-casting serfs. In this conviction he is deadly serious. He regards the New Dealers as brigands & thugs, intent on robbing U. S. voters of their precious heritage of independence, on stifling free enterprise -a band of evil men masquerading as humanitarians. If by some evil chance Roosevelt should be re-elected in 1940, it will mean, he thinks, the end of the road, the death of the American way. When...
...made Mr. Pew mad; a practical man, he took his wrath to Republican headquarters in Washington to see how such nonsense could be stopped. Mr. Pew envisioned a big, bustling, businesslike office; instead, he found the office deserted except for underlings and one minor official who had dropped in to answer his social correspondence. Joe Pew was not only mad but disgusted. He entrained for Pennsylvania in the comforting belief that there at least the Republican Party could always be found at work. He couldn't find it. Mr. Pew put his convictions and dollars to work. He became...
...back, he found his candidate had been scared out of the race by the late Samuel Davis Wilson, a loud. belchy, vigorous, utility-baiting, renegade Democrat, who campaigned with such ear-catching phrases as: "Before I get through I'll take all the oil out of Pew-Pew...