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Slick, sleek Joe Guffey, in a press release, asserted that the Senate vote rejecting the Administration soldier-vote bill (TIME, Dec. 13) had been the work of "a combination of Northern Republicans, under the leadership of Joe Pew, and of Southern Democrats, under the leadership of Harry Byrd." He called this an "unpatriotic and unholy alliance...
...told the Washington press that 36 fellow Congressmen from 13 States had signed a petition urging him to try for the Republican Presidential nomination. He insisted that he was a serious candidate. He scorned any idea of acting as a "favorite son," which is the main strategy of the Pew-Hamilton "stop Willkie" campaign...
Five years later, he went to take over run-down midtown Madison Avenue Church. The rich came to the church, the poor East Siders went to the chapel which the church supported. Coffin abolished the chapel, brought the two congregations together. He abolished pew rents (a daring innovation in those days), got new parishioners by following moving vans in the neighborhood, ringing the bell before the family got settled. He regularly took his folding reed organ to tenement houses at 2 in the morning to hold a service for neighborhood street railway workers arriving home from the night shift...
There is nothing in his past to frighten the old-line G.O.P. leaders (Rule 8), with whom he has worked closely for 23 years. He is supported, but not too ostentatiously, by the wealthy Pew, Du Pont and Columbia Gas & Electric interests (Rule 9). Since the first of the year he has let the voters see him (Rule 10) in speech-making appearances in Chicago, Nashville, Manhattan, Lincoln...
...national G.O.P. convention): "Wendell Willkie's chances here do not look bright. He is not considered by most party leaders and officers as the real leader of the Republican Party. . . . They do not consider his 'international meddling' in line with Republican policy. Pennsylvania's Pew-Grundy organization has been strengthened considerably by the election of Governor Edward Martin, an Old Guardsman. Both Pew and Grundy are New Deal haters and a little afraid of Willkie's progressiveness. They would be much happier with a quieter and more conservative...