Word: jersey
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...Hand. At 47, New Jersey's Meyner is an old hand at upsetting applecarts. One of the most eligible bachelors in U.S. politics, he practiced law in Jersey City and home-town Phillipsburg, went to the state senate in 1947, became one of the leaders in ousting Jersey City's Boss Frank Hague from the seat of Democratic power in 1949. Four years later Meyner was nominated for governor. He promptly announced that, win or lose in the general election, he was assuming direct personal leadership of the state organization and intended to retain it for the next...
...moment of taking office, Meyner became one of the most powerful of U.S. governors. Under the New Jersey constitution, the governor is the only elected official in the executive branch. He has almost absolute power in appointing cabinet officers (the fact that four of Meyner's cabinet officers are Republicans has caused some major Democratic grumbling). Says Meyner: "I have great opportunities to do a job of service without legislation." This helps, since the New Jersey legislature is Republican...
...Lawrence, Stevenson remarked: "I can't be sure, of course, that I will retain their allegiance until next August." Estes Kefauver was in no better shape; his improved Gallup poll rating after the Minnesota primary could be expected to fall off after last week's dismal New Jersey showing...
...absence of an emerging leader, dark-horse candidacies were blooming in Missouri, Texas, Ohio, Michigan and New Jersey. Asked about the dark-horse potential of New York's Governor Averell Harriman, Stevenson replied: "There are a lot of darker horses than Harriman who will be heard from before this is all over...
Confusion, though, followed the Dodgers. Partly as a gesture to jolt New York State taxpayers into helping them to build a new stadium, they crossed the Hudson to Jersey City for a second "opening game," the first of seven regular-season "home" games they will play there this year. Somebody gave Jersey City Mayor Bernard J. Berry a ball to throw out. Came time for the historic throw. "Mr. Mayor, the ball," an aide prompted. "The ball?" echoed His Honor with surprise. "I gave it to some kid." The game itself, complicated by the poor playing surface in Roosevelt Stadium...