Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More important in politics than the score of victory is the score of defeat. By that score Senator Borah was practically eliminated as a candidate. He lost Ohio almost 2-to-1 to Favorite Son Robert A. Taft, and last week he lost New Jersey to Governor Landon by 4-to-1. These two losses outbalanced a half-victory in Wisconsin, a moral victory in Illinois and four victories by default in other states...
Since Publisher Knox suffered a moral defeat in Illinois, the real victor of the primary season was Governor Landon, whose half-defeat in California was offset by the margin of his victory in New Jersey. Last week as Landonites went about preening themselves, Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley mounted a platform in Grand Rapids, Mich, to crack their candidate as follows...
...Green of Rhode Island, President Jonas Lie of the National Academy of Design and many another notable sat down to dine in honor of the opening of the National Exhibition of American Art. Also present among these friends of culture was husky Governor Harold G. Hoffman of New Jersey. Up to him strolled Lou Wedemar, Universal News Serviceman who covered the Lindbergh case. Said Hearstling Wedemar to New Jersey's Governor...
...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...