Word: forbeses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perhaps nowhere is this more evident than in the New Jersey gubernatorial race, now entering its final stages. The incumbent, Democratic governor Robert B. Meyner, has stood largely on his record. His opponent, Republican state Senator Malcolm S. Forbes, basically supports much of this record. Yet, for campaign purposes, he...
As in many campaigns where the candidates find it hard to clash on any important issue, there has been a good deal of mudslinging. Accusations of conniving with crooks and winking at scandal have been hurled back and forth. Forbes has made the so-called Insurance Scandal a chief point...
In retaliation Meyner has attacked Forbes's attempted elevation of Lloyd Marsh to the Republican state chairmanship. He has called Marsh a man who "borrowed $25,000 for that party from Joe Bozzo, an admitted confidant of such racketeers as Joe Adonis and the late Willie Moretti." In defense, Forbes...
"When I started this campaign," says Forbes, "I had a dozen things I wanted to indict the Meyner administration for. But I found out that people were only interested in spending and what we were going to do about taxes, taxes, taxes." To New Jersey audiences burdened with neither income...
On the Beach. In addition to these frontal attacks, Meyner has been wounded by a shot in the back from his own party. The key to a Democratic victory rests in Hudson County, where last election Meyner won almost half his 154,000-vote plurality over Republican Candidate Paul Troast...