Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...catching new votes in long-standing Republican counties. In New York State, for the first time in 20 years, Democrats elected more mayors (29) than Republicans did (23). In Pittsburgh. Mayor David Leo Lawrence's fourth-term win established another record-breaking plurality. And in Republican New Jersey, where, to dike the Democratic tide, both President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon added weight to the ardent campaigning of Republican Malcolm Forbes, Governor Robert Meyner swamped Forbes (see below...
Ambling out of his mother's Phillipsburg house on election night last week to acknowledge victory shouts from 3,000 cheering fellow Democrats, New Jersey's handsome Governor Robert Baumle Meyner smiled broadly at the carefully printed posters and signs held by the faithful. MEYNER IN '60, they read and GOODBYE...
...Democrats won clear across the board last week. With the exception of fully expected Republican victory in two House races in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, the Democrats triumphed in each of the three major contests by significant majorities...
...York City mayoralty race, Robert Wagner won by the largest margin ever recorded by a candidate for mayor in city history. In New Jersey, Governor Meyner beat Malcolm Forbes by over 200,000 votes and similarly received more votes than any Democrat in New Jersey history. The Democrats, for the first time in twenty years, also captured the State Assembly, where they gained more seats than they have since 1912. The Democrats triumphed in spite of the fact that Eisenhower carried the state by 750,000 votes in last year's election and despite Forbes' importation of big-name Republican...
...last year. And strong earnings reports kept rolling in from dozens of big and little companies. In electronics and appliances, General Electric, Motorola, Westinghouse, all had better nine-month earnings than last year. Oil companies such as Cities Service, Ohio Oil, Standard Oil of California, Standard Oil of New Jersey also posted new gains; Jersey Standard had an alltime record of $660 million for 1957's first nine months, 9½% better than...