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...fight was noisy as a tenement row, and sometimes as unseemly. But when the shouting subsided in Pennsylvania last week, the liberal wing of the Republican Party, led by Republican Governor James Duff, was on top. It had trounced old (87) Joe Grundy, the foxy political grandpa who for almost 30 years had run the state's Republican Party on the principle that what was good for big business was good for the people...
...withering away like the English Liberals. In the Senate, where the Republicans need to pick up seven seats to win control, their best prospect was in Idaho, where Governor Charles A. Robins was expected to eliminate Glen Taylor. There was an even-money chance that Governor Jim Duff could beat Senate Majority Whip Francis Myers in Pennsylvania and that Illinois' Everett Dirksen could unseat Majority Leader Scott Lucas. Representative Richard Nixon might defeat the Democrats' Helen Douglas in California. If they could find the right candidates, the strategists had some hope of defeating New York's Lehman...
...year travel allowance instead of from the party treasury. He will deliver the Democratic line as the presidential train winds through Maryland, where Millard Tydings is gunning for re-election to the Senate; Pennsylvania, where Democratic Senate Whip Francis Myers faces a stiff fight against Republican Governor James Duff; Ohio, where the President would love to kayo Senator Bob Taft; Indiana, where Republican Homer Capehart is up for reelection; and Illinois, where Senate Majority Leader Scott Lucas has to step fast to be sure of another term. If time and disposition permit, there will probably be side excursions, including...
Time for Decision. One by one, Duff-men called in the waverers and turned on the heat for Duff's own candidate for governor, Superior Court Judge John S. Fine of Nanticoke. "This is the time for decision," Duff told them. "If the Republicans of Pennsylvania don't want to go ahead, then I'm not the guy to represent them." When the showdown came, Duff had won the endorsement for Senator by acclamation and Judge Fine had been picked for governor by a thumping majority...
...Duff's victory made it almost certain that the fight would carry over into the May primary itself. There was no sign of a truce. Grundymen pointedly noted that the county chairmen supporting Fine represented less than half of the Republican vote. They hinted darkly that if they lost the primary, they would undercut Duff at election time when he would run against Fair Dealing Senator Francis Myers. Duff accepted the challenge. Said he: "We will defeat Grundyism in the primary or the Democrats will defeat it in November...