Word: governorship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Governor. In the race for governor of New Jersey, the result was less surprising. By Election Day, most observers agreed that the Jersey Republicans had kicked away their chance to hold the governorship (TIME. Nov. 2). Exposes of corruption, intraparty strife, a colorless candidate and an inept campaign put practically all of the local issues on the Democratic side. The Democrats ably seized the advantage and held it. Their nominee, Lawyer Robert Baumle Meyner, a bachelor from Phillipsburg (pop. 19,000), beat Republican Nominee Paul Troast, a wealthy building contractor, by 154,000 votes...
...Jersey Democratic leaders generally agreed on why they won the governorship: "Public disgust" over the scandals that had touched the New Jersey G.O.P. The last straw, they thought, was Republican Candidate Troast's admission that he had asked New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey to commute the sentence of Labor Extortionist Joey Fay. Winner Meyner (rhymes with signer) disagreed heartily with the interpretation that got him headlines across the nation. He thought he had won on local issues, didn't think his victory was any reflection on the Eisenhower Administration...
...closer to Duff than to any other Keystone Republican, was cautiously neutral last week. He saw none of the party bigwigs in private. Before many months pass, Eisenhower and Hall may have to act. If the Pennsylvania Republicans continue to fight with themselves, they may well lose: i) the governorship, 2) control of the 30-member delegation in the U.S. House of Representatives, and 3) the presidential electoral votes...
When Earl Warren boarded an airliner and took off for Washington this week, a whole political era in California went with him. The independent Warren, who had built his political power on bipartisan support, turned the governorship over to Goodwin Jess Knight, a regular, conservative, organization Republican. The new governor, a back-thumping, bouncing lawyer of 56 who has served seven years as lieutenant governor, could not hope to win the Democrats who supported Warren. But the day Warren departed was a good day for "Goody" Knight. It meant that he will be running for governor next year...
...Guests. Topping the list was the name of Arthur Wicks. Republican majority leader in the State Senate, who had just been sworn in as acting lieutenant governor of New York. Also on the list was William F. Bleakley, a former state supreme court justice, onetime G.O.P. candidate for the governorship and currently the counsel for the racketeer-ridden Yonkers Raceway.* Republican State Senator William Condon of Yonkers had a ready explanation for his visit: he had escorted A.F.L. President George Meany on a trip to see Extortionist Fay, hadn't spoken a word during the visit. Although his name...