Word: pews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...