Word: hoffmans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Then you've lost your money," snorted Governor Hoffman...
Governor and newshawk thereupon made their way out of the dining room together discussing the Hauptmann trial. They got no farther than the steps leading down into the lounge when Harold Hoffman was heard to say, "You can't call me yellow and get away with it!" The 210-lb. Governor then swung on 130-lb. Newshawk Wedemar, who slumped to the floor. Mr. Hoffman returned to his dinner...
...atmosphere typified by this brawl, New Jersey Republicans next morning went to the polls to record their preference for Presidential Candidates Borah and Landon. Governor Hoffman was candidate for no more exalted office than one of New Jersey's four delegates-at-large to the Republican Convention. In addition to him, the official slate of Landon delegates-at-large included Mrs. Edna B. Conklin; President Edward D. Duffield of Prudential Insurance Co., chairman of Princeton's board of trustees; and Walter Evans Edge, onetime (1919-29) Senator, Herbert Hoover's Ambassador to France. Into the fight...
...Jersey's eyes the Hoffman-Fort battle eclipsed the Landon-Borah contest. While Fortians were urged to "vote the alphabet" (C for Conklin, D for Duffield, E for Edge, F for Fort), Governor Hoffman's machine concentrated on urging the faithful to vote not for four Landon delegates-at-large but for Hoffman only, thereby saving the Governor's face with "bullet votes." Fort men charged that in mustering Republican votes, the Governor was supported by Jersey City's Democratic Mayor Frank Hague. Indeed, in Boss Hague's Hudson County Hoffman polled four votes...
...District of Columbia and four territories hung on specially prepared walls of sea grass and plaster. For the preview dinner in Rockefeller Center's 65th story Rainbow Room, New York's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia rounded up a roomful of bigwigs, including New Jersey's Governor Harold Hoffman. Beefy Governor Hoffman promptly proceeded to put the show on the front pages by flooring with one blow a spindly Hearstling named Lou Wedemar who heckled him about his handling of the Hauptmann case. After this preliminary bout the bigwigs were taken to look at the show. Advertised...