Word: forbeses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶ Charles E. (forEmil) Eble, 56, moves into the presidency of New York's Consolidated Edison Co., one of the nation's biggest gas and electric companies (2,755,000 customers, $523 million annual revenue), replacing Harland C. Forbes, 59, who moves up to board chairman. A self...
¶Received Publisher Malcolm Forbes, 37, eager beaver New Jersey Republican candidate for governor, and his photogenic family (four sons, aged four to ten, and two-year-old daughter Moira). Forbes's visit came at his own urgent request only three weeks after his Democratic opponent, Governor Robert Meyner...
All for Ike. From now until the general election, New Jerseyites are due for a frontal assault from a determined, politically canny young man. In a state where Eisenhower swept through such traditional Democratic strongholds as Hudson County last year, Forbes will lose no chance to remind voters that he...
Perhaps his strongest political asset is a highly photogenic family of four boys and a girl, who go to St. James Protestant Episcopal Church in Bernardsville in the dark green, blue and white kilts of clan Forbes. Their job: to offset the orange-blossom blush worn by handsome, greying Democratic...
But Meyner will not be easy. Constitutionally, the governor of New Jersey has more patronage and power than any other governor in the land; Meyner is generally conceded to have used his to build up a young, effective and shrewd organization. Last week, while Forbes was drubbing Dumont with a...