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There were some splinter groups-and some who still hoped to heal the breach. Oilman Joe Pew, once a real power but now a political has-been, privately favored Bob Taft. Philadelphia's ex-City Chairman Jay Cooke had a small handful of delegates lined up for Harold Stassen. National Committeewoman Mrs. Worthington Scranton was working feverishly for unity behind U.S. Senator Edward Martin-who would be the delegation's favorite-son choice on the first ballot...
...time to pick a successor for able Governor Ed Martin, the party's bigwigs settled on Big Jim. After a long, weary afternoon's session in the Hotel Hershey, the bosses could still not decide between four other entries. Finally, in a moment of unguarded weariness, Joe Pew pointed to Duff: "That redheaded s.o.b. ought to be the candidate. I called him about it a few days ago and he told me to go to hell...
...suspicion. Mrs. Arthur Streatin, wife of a retired sea captain, got a letter asking if she knew that her daughters "kept open house" for local men. "I stayed home from church for months. After all, I wasn't sure whether the culprit was sitting in the next pew." The apparent basis for the letter to Mrs. Streatin was the fact that her daughters had given an innocent party for other villagers...
...companies were "carefully weighing" a price increase. Companies dependent on outside sources of crude had little choice. If they did not meet Sun's buying price, they would probably not be able to buy crude. In explanation of the increase, Sun's Vice President John Glenn (Jack) Pew* said that his company had "found it increasingly difficult to obtain crude oil. . [because] of ever-increasing premiums which are being paid ... by many of our competitors." But many oilmen disagreed when Pew added that "an increased price will prove an incentive for stimulating increased production" Crude was short because...
...confused with his uncle, John Glenn Pew, President of Sun Shipbuilding Co., or with his cousin, John Glenn Pew Jr., also with the shipbuilding company...