POLITICAL NOTES: Key Man, Keystone State

In political dopesters' books, Pennsylvania is the key state in the 1946 elections. Key Man of G.O.P. hopes in Pennsylvania is Governor Edward Martin, who is out to oust Democratic Boss Joe Guffey from his U.S. Senate seat. G.O.P. chances, already high thanks to Martin's popularity, were enhanced last week by the party's choice for the Governorship race: able Attorney General James H. Duff.

Joe Guffey, who had twice ridden into the Senate on Franklin Roosevelt's vote appeal, now hoped that the state ticket would help carry him through. For a candidate for Governor, the Democrats settled on John Stanley...

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