Word: puddler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pennsylvania's Senator Joseph Ridgeway Grundy who goes into a primary election next month against Secretary of Labor James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis for the Republican senatorial nomination, grew so excited detailing to the Privileges & Elections Committee alleged "slush funds'' being raised against him by the Vare-Atterbury faction, that Chairman Shortridge had to call him sharply to order. Secretary Davis, when he heard a Senate committee would investigate Mr. Grundy's campaign expenditures along with his own, rapturously exclaimed...
...Grundy now holds. When Mr. Vare withdrew as a senatorial candidate to support Mr. Davis, the Labor Secretary acknowledged the courtesy as follows: "I'm always grateful for the help of any good man." Candidate Davis makes much of the fact that he was once a Pennsylvania iron puddler. He likes to return to the Pittsburgh Mills periodically and, before well-focussed cameras, fiddle around the furnaces, get dirty, wash up with "the men" at their trough, shake hands with one and all, smile amiably and good-naturedly...