Word: edisonizing
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...green emergency squad wagon from the Police Department drove up when a bomb made a direct hit on a one-story brick house, setting it on fire. Up drove a "catastrophe" ambulance from Bellevue with interns and nurses; up drove a red Consolidated Edison truck to fix broken gas mains and cables; a station wagon with "Mobile Blood Plasma Unit No. i" on the side...
Boss Hague has been accustomed to hand-pick New Jersey's Governors, but he did not hand-pick Edison. And the Boss is well aware that the Governor does not like the smell of Haguery in Jersey...
...bill was only one phase of Governor Edison's adroit assault. Edison is well aware that a large part of Hague's power lies in control of New Jersey judges. The Governor showed his hand, a week after he took office, by appointing Republican Frederic R. Colie to the Supreme Bench. Hague's reaction: an hour of abuse and threats screamed into the Governor's ear by telephone from the Boss's winter den on Biscayne...
Second point of attack is the primary in September, when the Governor will try for a knockout by backing anti-Hague candidates, men who supported the railroad-tax revision. If Edison's men win, their victory may imperil Boss Hague's grip on the State Democratic machine, which usually carries only two or three of the State's 21 counties but rolls up a majority of more than 100,000 in Hague's Hudson County-enough to insure the Boss' Statewide rule. Informed that Edison was already taking the field for a series of speeches...
...grenade was a dud. Edison's reply: the leadership was not in the gift of Hague, but lay with the people, from whom he was willing to receive...