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...candidacy again drew the sharp line which separates the Out-&-Out-Dry-Pinchot Republican machine from the Wet Philadelphia organization commanded by Boss William Scott Vare. General Butler's chief opponent for the nomination (which is virtually as good as an election) will be Senator James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis, who recently switched from Dry to Wet to hold the support of Boss Vare's machine...
Last week chunky, affable Senator James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis of Pennsylvania did a Dry-to-Wet flipflop. In 1930 he was elected on the customary platform weasel of "strict enforcement." Fearful lest Boss William Scott Vare of Philadelphia reject him as a candidate for renomination in the April primaries. Senator Davis has now "regretfully reached the conclusion that the results hoped for under Prohibition have not materialized." Henceforth the Repeal-&-Return plank of the late Dwight Whitney Morrow will be his political guide...
...Harshly condemned for "inhuman working conditions" and referred to as "a $700.- 000,000 outrage" was Six Companies, Inc., builder of the Hoover Dam where twelve workers collapsed and died in the Nevada heat last summer (TIME, Aug. 24). And although the convention, encouraged by Senator James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis of Pennsylvania, longtime (1921-30) Secretary of Labor, turned its back on a Federal Dole, one Labor measure advocated by the delegates seemed certain of gaining the ear of Congress this winter. The 21 railroad unions (including the unaffiliated Brotherhoods), whose industry has laid...
...United Mine Workers of America. It was more a dogfight than a convention. Shouts and fists broke up the first meeting. A gas bomb thrown by the police to restore order brought tears and temporary blindness to the chief speaker at the second meeting, U. S. Senator James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis. The issue between conservative and insurgent United Miners: whether to strike generally or just locally. The conservatives won. Victory was hollow, however, for 15,000 Pittston miners involved then decided not to strike...
...other was William Burkowski who started to call himself Billy Burke when he gave up being a puddler in a steel mill and became golf professional at the fashionable Round Hill Club in Greenwich, Conn. A ponderous, muscular fellow, he smokes large black cigars when golfing, observes few of the niceties usually appreciated by onetime caddies whose golfing proficiency has enabled them to know nice people. Before the Open started, theorists spoke well of Burke's chances. The week before, in the Ryder Cup matches, he had kept his wooden shots straight, a trick that would be valuable...