Word: hoffmans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Events like these last week by no means astounded New Jersey whose politics has a strong savor of its own. They were in fact the normal accompaniment of a primary election in which the major issue was to choose gubernatorial candidates to succeed Republican Governor Harold Giles Hoffman whose political star has been waning. In the Democratic primary Arthur Harry Moore, up for a third term as Governor after time out to be elected to the U. S. Senate (1935-41), was unopposed. A party split made the Republican race more exciting. Backed by Governor Hoffman's once powerful...
...association-the Governors' Conference with headquarters and an executive secretary in Washington. And Governors have conventions. Last week they assembled in a traditional convention spot, Atlantic City, for their annual two-day outing. Only 22 went in person, some of the rest dispatching representatives. New Jersey's Hoffman played host, greeting the guests with a band, a claque of uniformed veterans, a platoon of State troopers, a motorcade of ten cars with gubernatorial license plates ("N. J. 1") and a convivial "get-together" dinner for early arrivals in the Hotel Traymore...
...year-old Wilbur ("Uncle Toby") Cross beamed on a pretty "gypsy girl," who escorted a "polar bear" on a leash. When a "monkey" beat up a "lion," Maine's Barrows observed dryly: "We always handle Democrats that way." South Carolina's Johnston danced with Host Hoffman's secretary. Utah's Blood was attentive to the wife of North Carolina's Hoey. Neither the Governor of North Carolina nor the Governor of South Carolina took a drink. Alabama's Bibb Graves and his lady, Dixie Bibb Graves, the new Senator from Alabama, were harassed...
...trophy is donated by the seven Advocate Trustees who include Professor Charles Abbott '28, Bernard P. Day '25, Walter D. Edmonds, Roy E. Larsen '21, Hoffman Nickerson '11, Hon. Samuel H. Ordway, Jr. '21, and Frank A. Vanderlip...
...Buffalo, the Veterans dispatched their routine agenda in short order. Elected Commander for the coming year was Oklahoma's Scott P. Squyres, a jovial World War veteran professing Indian descent. On the speakers' list with headline peace material were such names as New Jersey's Governor Hoffman, New York's Governor Lehman, New York City's Mayor LaGuardia, Missouri's Senator Bennett Champ Clark, Oklahoma's Senator Josh Lee. Getting in his political oar, Michigan's Senator Vandenberg declared. "It is none of our business, as neutrals, what the effect...