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...Jersey. Dwight Whitney Morrow, Republican senatorial candidate against Joseph Sherman Frelinghuysen in the June 17 primary, sat in his Englewood home pondering Prohibition, preparing his first campaign speech for delivery this week at Newark, in which he was expected to declare either Wet or Dry. Should Mr. Morrow go Wet like Mr. Frelinghuysen, Drys hoped they could obtain a candidate to their liking in the person of Representative Franklin Fort, good Hoover friend, onetime secretary of the Republican National Committee...
Prohibition was a no less troublesome problem for Mr. Morrow, because his chief adversary in the primary, Joseph Sherman Frelinghuysen, last week flopped from Dry to Wet. If Mr. Morrow should weasle on this issue out of deference to President Hoover's policy, Mr. Morrow knew that he would put himself at a distinct political disadvantage at home...
...Morrow approached New Jersey, he heard that Mr. Frelinghuysen's change on Prohibition was the big local news of the week. For six years (1917-23) Mr. Frelinghuysen was a New Jersey Senator. He voted for the 18th Amendment, helped to override the Wilson veto of the Volstead Act. As a Dry possessed of a famed wine cellar, he declared...
Here again times have changed and with them the popular feeling toward President Harding. Candidate Frelinghuysen, aware of this shift, cannot put to the fore of his campaign his close personal relationship with the late President. Once the name of Harding would have worked magic for any Jersey candidate. Now Mr. Frelinghuysen knows it would be a liability, hopes voters will forget it. "Not that I have changed in my loyalty to Warren," he said last week, "but you know how women...
...directed that the Museum should also be given "all such other pictures, paintings, engravings, statuary and other works of art as my son Horace might appoint to it." No less generous than their mother, her son Horace and her daughters Adaline and Electra (now Mrs. Peter H. B. Frelinghuysen of New Jersey and Mrs. James Watson Webb) appointed and appointed until the H. O. Havemeyer Collection was bloated to 1.907 specific objects. More modest than other museum donors, Mrs. Havemeyer specified that her collection was not to be kept separate and sacrosanct but was to be split up and subdivided...