Word: pews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...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...
Boss: 1940 Type. Joe Pew, vice president of the $146,431,484 Sun Oil Co., the latest in the line of Pennsylvania bosses, is unlike these political ancestors in every respect but one: he too thinks the salvation of the U. S. is bound up with the Republican Party. (It is no contradiction in fact that he would accept, and be happy under, John Nance Garner as President.) Like his predecessors, Joe Pew is spending pots of money to bring about a G. O. P. victory. Unlike them, he spends his own money. Since 1934 Joe Pew and his immediate...
...previous protectors of Pennsylvania were all take and no give; Boss Pew is just the opposite. This difference was important to all U. S. citizens last week, will be important to them from now on. For Mr. Pew is likely to have veto power on the G. O. P.'s Presidential nominee this year, and 1940, except for Franklin Roosevelt, daily looks more & more like a Republican year. Boss Pew has one major requirement of the GOPresidential nominee: he must damn the New Deal wholeheartedly...
...Pew family emerged in Titusville, Pa. in 1874, when Mary Anderson, whose family had pioneered in the oil fields, married Joseph Newton Pew (Welsh-English-Scottish-Irish, with a dash of Dutch and Palatinate blood), descendant of pre-Revolutionary traders, who had religious scruples against selling Indians fire water. After a massacre of settlers at Bushy Run, the early Pews developed practical scruples against selling Indians powder & shot. These scruples brought trade to a standstill, and the Pews became farmers. In 1859 they got in on Pennsylvania's first oil boom, struck it rich, stayed that way. Joseph Pew...