Word: puddler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Since the office was created in 1913, Secretary Perkins had only three competitors: the late William B. Wilson, Pennsylvania's James J. ("Puddler Jim") Davis, the late William N. Doak...
Upset. Perhaps the Senate's biggest upset was the defeat of Pennsylvania's gladhanding, snow-crested "Puddler Jim" Davis, 71, member of the Moose, Secretary of Labor under Herbert Hoover and a fixture on the public payroll since 1921. His successor, who rode the Roosevelt wind across Pennsylvania, is an all but unknown Philadelphia Democrat, 200-lb. Francis J. Myers, 42, who has served three plodding terms in the House...
...voters showed their internationalist sympathies in ousting Republicans. To defeat went North Dakota's slippery Isolationist Gerald P. Nye, Pennsylvania's Isolationist James J. ("Puddler Jim") Davis, and Connecticut's John Danaher. All were replaced by men pledged to U.S. cooperation in world affairs: Governor John Moses in North Dakota, Congressman Francis J. Myers in Pennsylvania, and ex-U.S. Assistant Attorney General Brien McMahon in Connecticut...
Once again, Puddler Jim Davis' long and unspectacular career in office had been saved by merciful intervention. After serving through three Republican Presidents as Secretary of Labor, he was off the public payroll only 33 minutes in 1930 −long enough to be sworn in as Senator. In 1932 he was re-elected two years before the New Deal tide really began to run in Pennsylvania. In 1938 he came back when the New Deal tide was ebbing and his Democratic opposition was split. Each time he won without the support of the State G.O.P. machine. Each time Pennsylvania...
Perhaps their new harmony song stuck in the throats of Messrs. Pew and Grundy. But Puddler Jim's Welsh tenor came crashing through. He sang triumphantly last week: "I am willing to be a candidate for re-election...