Word: edisonizing
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...lives, of other men when he is obligated to a political boss.... Still worse, it seems to me, would be a judge long associated with and long beholden to a man who says that and acts as if the law begins and ends with himself." So wrote Governor Edison of New Jersey...
...Jersey's handsome, aristocratic, hard-of-hearing Governor Charles Edison is no routine politician. Independently wealthy as head of his father's "Edison Industries," he went into public life to earn his pay, not just to get it. He was made Assistant Secretary of the Navy by his great & good friend Franklin Roosevelt, later ran for Governor in 1940 as a personal favor to the President. As Governor, he has waged a bitter, housecleaning battle to purify New Jersey politics by sweeping out the ubiquitous Hague cockroaches...
...Governor Edison knew that President Roosevelt's appointment of Meaney was the routine sort of kick-in-the-face that practical politicians must learn to shrug off. He knew that, unless he held his peace, he would embarrass Friend Roosevelt. Yet last week, with the philosophic detachment of the deaf, and the practical detachment of a man to whom politics is more than a game, he sat down and wrote a statesman's letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee...
...Buch-man's troupe, aided by local volunteers in the mob scenes, last week put on four New Jersey performances of You Can Defend America-two in Newark, one each in Trenton and Kearny. The long and notable list of sponsors was headed by Governor & Mrs. Charles Edison. Dr. Buchman and the cast were busy as beavers between shows, explaining the principles of Moral Re-Armament to prospects and trying for converts...
...Edison's old friend Franklin Roosevelt thought he needed New Jersey's colorless Senator William Smathers re-elected this November (the Senator's only achievement is riding the New Deal coat tail) and knew he needed Hague's machine to turn the trick. Edison and his fight to clean up New Jersey politics must wait. Mr. Roosevelt's Justice Department took a look at Mr. Meaney and promptly pronounced him "superior" to the three other candidates...