Word: hagueism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...More Rice Pudding. So Hagueism became a memory. Rice Pudding Day (when city, county and state job holders kicked back 3% of their annual salaries to a Boss Hague "campaign fund"), the fixed ballot boxes, the voting of the dead, the bullyboys beating up poll watchers, the cops swinging nightsticks on labor organizers-all that became history...
...Communist Party. Cooed he: ". . . Outworn conceptions, if carried over to other historical periods, can prove of incalculable harm to the cause of progress and the chief issue today, the nation's war. Such a misconception continues to exist with regard to Frank Hague and so-called Hagueism...
...themselves that they had Hague licked, but now was the time, if ever, to attack him on all fronts. Through his control of pivotal Hudson County with its whopping vote, Hague has elected five Governors, for years has euchred the Republican majority in the Legislature, has made "Hagueism" the dominating influence in the State. Both times Franklin Roosevelt ran for the Presidency, Hague delivered New Jersey's 16 electoral votes. Sixteen electoral votes, to the Republicans, were a lot of potatoes last week...
...charge that he is a Hague Republican with the retort: "I like Hague as much as Haig & Haig. I take both of them when I want them but neither is my master." Most discouraging of all to Pastor Clee and the Clean Government League is that the cry of "Hagueism" has been raised so often that Jersey voters are getting tired of it. Tired is the way Frank Hague likes to see them...