Evening star., 1929-12-12
GRUNDY IS GOOD STORY TELLER;
HAS TWO ODDITIES OF ATTIRE
Wears High Topped Button
Shoes and Leather Band
Watch Chain.
Friends Sure He Will Be Able
to Take Care of Himself
in Senate.

Joseph r. Grundy, Senator-designate
from Pennsylvania, and one Of the most
talked-of men in or out of the Senate,
comes to his first national Office wear
ing easily the 66 years to which he
admits readily and almost with touch
Of pride.
Slightly above medium height, the
longtime State and national political
figure is stockily built, with broad
shoulders, a deep chest, but with a
waist line that might incite the envy
of many a man years his junior.
He has shock of snow white hair,
carefully parted on the left side; full
face with ruddy complexion and a pair
of blue eyes that twinkle behind White
metal-rimmed glasses.
FastidiOus in Dress.
Mr.. Grundy is fastidious in his dress,
wearing mostly dark suits. with striped
shirts and collars to match. He has
two oddities of attire-old- fashioned
high-topped button shoes and a leather
band with large buckle doing duty as
a watch chain, extending from vest
button hole across to the lower pocket
on the left side of the vest.
The Senator designate Is good story
teller and has reservoir of anecdotes
upon which he readily draws to illus
trate points in even a rather casual
conversation with his friends.
No Claim to Oratory.
Since his only other public office was
that as a member of the borough coun-
Gil in his home town, there is natural
curiosity as to how he will fare in the
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friends who saw him in action in the
Senate lobby investigation profess to
have no misrepresentation Of his ability
to take care of himself.
The manufacturer and high-tariff
advocate lays no claims to oratorical
ability, but he doesn't hesitate to say
that the gentlemen whose colleague he
now is appointed to be "sorta had me
handicapped" in the lobby inquiry by
the power to cut short his speeches
That's a handicap he will not have
to buck in the Senate.
PrOpOnent Of High Tariff.
Mr.. Grundy is a manufacturer of
Bristol, Pa. Throughout his life he has
been one of the country's most out
standing proponents of a high protective
tariff AS president of the Pennsyl-
sylvania Manufacturers Association, he
has fought in his State and in WASH
ington for the protective tariff theory.
The appointment to the Senate was
rendered him by lifelong friend, the
man he sponsored for Governor Of
Pennsylvania and helped to elect to
that Office.
Mr.. Grundy has been a familiar
figure in Washington, especially at
times when Congress has considered
tariff bills. He Is manufacturer Of
woolen goods, a member of the So
ciety of Friends and lifelong Repub-
lican. On January 13 he will be 81
years old He is unmarried. He was
born in Camden in 1863 and was edu-
Gated in the public schools of Camden
and Philadelphia and later matricu-
lated at Swarthmore College. In 1880
he left college and began work as an
apprentice in his fathers factory. Upon
his fathers death he became head of
the firm, which has proSpered steadily
under his direction, until today Mr..
Grundy is regarded as being master Of
between S2O,O00,000 and $25 100000.
The Bristol factory is said to be model
institution, employing more than 1000
workers.
Aids Charitable Works.
Many times a millionaire, money in
itself has apparently meant little to
Mr.. Grundy. He has poured IL nperaIly
into campaign funds and has used it
unostentatiously in a multitude Of
charitable works. Not long ago he es-
tablished an entirely new fire depart
ment in Bristol at cost of nearly half
a million dollars.
For many years Mr.. Grundy has been
active in politics. He was staunch ally
Of the late Senator Boise Penrose. He
has served in six Republican national
conventions as a delegate for Pennsyl-
vania. He backed in these conventions
the man who was later nominated by
the people, beginning with William Nc
Kinley. He was delegate to the Kan
sas City convention in 1928 which NOM
mated President Hoover.