Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only witnesses called last week were newsmen, to testify to the charge that McCarthy had ridiculed and abused fellow Senators, e.g., by describing Vermont's Senator Ralph Flanders as "senile" and New Jersey's Republican Senator Robert Hendrickson as "a living miracle in that he is without question the only man in the world who has lived so long with neither brains nor guts." Williams' cross-examination of the newsmen was brief...
Attempted suicide is a misdemeanor in New Jersey, and last week New Jersey's Republican Party was looking somewhat misdemeanant. When Senatorial Candi date Clifford Case rose to speak at the Morris County Fair one night, sign-carrying pickets marched around the fringe of the crowd. "You're off base if you vote for Case," said one. Outside of New Jersey it would have been considered strange that signs attacking Republican Case were carried by Republicans...
...demonstration in Morris County was but another step in the New Jersey Republican Party's efforts toward self-destruction. In 1953 G.O.P. leaders threw away the governorship by putting up a weak candidate, New Jersey Turnpike Builder Paul Troast. This year a party faction that had learned the lesson of 1953 got able, popular Cliff Case to resign from a $40,000-a-year Ford Foundation job and take the nomination for the U.S. Senate. A short time later, after Case issued a statement attacking Joe McCarthy, the Old Guard faction began to make trouble...
While the Republicans fight on, Jersey Democrats are cheering and chuckling on the sidelines. Smirked U.S. Representative Charles Howell, the Democratic candidate for the Senate: "I hesitate to interfere in someone else's family quarrel, but it is hard to remain silent when I hear Republicans saying things about one another which I have never dreamed saying about my opponent...
...G.O.P. suicide attempt in New Jersey is hurting Cliff Case, but he has the wholehearted backing of the White House and is still a strong contender. Always a big vote getter in his own congressional district, he ran 10,000 votes ahead of Dwight Eisenhower in 1952. His basic political philosophy: the U.S. should .follow a great middle way, and the Republican Party is the instrument to find that...