Word: clee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Democracy, opined that his candidate for Governor, Senator A. Harry Moore, would carry his Hudson County stronghold by 130,000 votes. Candidate Moore carried Hudson County by 129,000 votes. Since this was enough to wipe out the leads piled up by his Republican opponent, Preacher Lester H. Clee, in most other New Jersey counties and give Moore a Statewide margin of 744,311-to-699,454, Candidate Clee and his Republican friends promptly charged that their Hudson County workers had been intimidated, began, clamoring for a recount. When officials advised that this could not legally be limited...
...unopposed. A party split made the Republican race more exciting. Backed by Governor Hoffman's once powerful Republican machine was State Senator Clifford R. Powell, whose campaign was run by Mrs. Powell. His opponent, also a State Senator was a Newark Presbyterian pastor, Lester Harrison Clee, who when returns were counted had won the nomination by 247,876 votes to Powell...
Before he descended from the pulpit of Newark's Second Presbyterian Church to go into politics, Dr. Clee had organized two of the largest adult Bible classes in the U. S. He became Speaker of the State House of Representatives, in 1935 forced repeal of a State sales tax for relief money. Macmillan will publish Dr. Glee's The Preacher in Politics this month. Stocky, eloquent, liberal in both his ecclesiastical and political opinions, Dr. Clee will campaign on a platform of clean government and economy. Whether or not he is elected Governor in November may depend largely...
First shot in New Jersey's gubernatorial campaign was immediately fired not by Democrat Moore nor Republican Clee but by an Independent, a Parsi named Dinshah Pestanji Framji Ghadiali, whose first name means "King of Duty." Born in Bombay 63 years ago, King of Duty Ghadiali has been, according to his own account, a wireless experimenter at Hillsdale, N. J., a medical student, export manager of a smelting company at Union, N. J., an assistant professor of mathematics in Bombay, manager of Bombay's first cinemansion, a commander in the New York Police Air Service, a mechanical engineer...
...Ohio is pastor of Cincinnati's People's Church. Secretary of State of Iowa is Dr. Robert Enlow O'Brian, Methodist minister and onetime president of Morningside College in Sioux City. Currently many a New Jersey Republican favors, as lis next gubernatorial candidate, Rev. Lester Harrison Clee, State Senator and pastor of Newark's Second Presbyterian Church...