Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Absolute Cruncher. Even while Soapy was moving toward Adlai, tense, closely guarded negotiations were going on inside the 36-vote New Jersey delegation, which nominally favored Governor Robert Meyner but was actually split 26 for Stevenson to 10 (all from Jersey City) for Harriman. At a meeting on Tuesday of six New Jersey leaders, Bob Meyner flatly refused to stand as a favorite son, convinced Jersey City Leader John Kenny that Harriman was a sure loser. The six voted unanimously to back Stevenson. Kenny reported to New York's Tammany Hall Boss Carmine De Sapio, who passed...
...announcement of New Jersey's 36-vote break to Stevenson actually came eight hours after the Michigan switch−but New Jersey was the absolute cruncher. When it happened, a top Harriman aide silently drew his finger across his throat...
...such worthies as Indiana's Frank McKinney and New York's Judge Samuel Rosenman assured him that Ave had lined up 450 or more first-ballot votes. They reasoned that such favorite sons as Ohio's Frank Lausche, Michigan's G. Mennen Williams and New Jersey's Robert Meyner would hold their delegations for themselves, at the first sign of firm opposition to Stevenson. They reported that Stevenson's following was lukewarm ("Did you ever see an enthusiastic Stevenson man except for some of those right around him?") and that it would, if Harry...
...Vicious Turn. Disillusionment was swift and savage. In a full day of talking to "customers" in his suite, Harry Truman got only two half-vote delegates to switch. With the Democrats who really counted, Truman got nowhere. Even as he was going up to Truman's suite, New Jersey's Bob Meyner announced that he would have no part of a favorite-son candidacy. And Frank Lausche (who refused to campaign for Truman in 1948) did not visit Harry until after he had promised Stevenson's managers that he would throw his Ohio support to Adlai...
Emerging from the Atlantic surf on the New Jersey coast, power-packed Gertrude Ederle, 49, looked as if she could still swim the English Channel, a 35-mile trick that she was the first woman to perform. This week Gertrude was slated to get cheers and a commemorative plaque in the 30th anniversary month of her great triumph over winds, tides and waves...