Word: forbeses
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Meyner led Republican State Sen. Malcolm S. Forbes by 155,000 votes with slightly more than half the ballots counted. Only a year ago President Eisenhower carried New Jersey by 760,000 votes.
Forbes, who ran as an Eisenhower Republican, conceded defeat at 11:12 p.m.
In an effort to defeat Incumbent Democratic Governor Robert Baumle Meyner next week in the key U.S. election of 1957, the G.O.P. had also called out Labor Secretary James P. . Mitchell, Interior Secretary Fred Seaton and New Jersey's Senator Clifford Case. But the busiest campaigner of them all...
Forbes took a gamble on the growing national discontent over big-labor brass, tagged Meyner as a tool of the state's C.I.O. bosses, hoped thereby to pick up some rank-and-file votes. He played relentlessly on Meyner's record budget (up $21 million since Meyner took...
In contrast to the thousands tumbling into the Nixon-Forbes rallies last week, Meyner was drawing poor crowds. In Jersey City advance Democratic scouts hastily combined five meetings into one in a hall seating 75, then produced an overflow audience. Nonetheless, the polls were showing Meyner a winner: a Princeton...