Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. William Warren Barbour, 55, Republican Senator from New Jersey off & on since 1931, onetime National Amateur Heavyweight Boxing Champion; or coronary thrombosis; in Washington...
Back to '28. The Republican swing hit hard. Frank Hague's corrupt Jersey gang took a crushing blow in the mazard; the wreckage of Tammany Hall is strewn over Manhattan. Sole potent Democratic city machine left, outside the Solid South, is Ed Kelly's Chicago juggernaut...
...third largest margin in New Jersey's history, the Republicans took over the governorship from Democrat Charles Edison-who didn't seem to mind. Wealthy, 69-year-old Walter Evans Edge (Hoover's Ambassador to France, ally of the senior Henry Cabot Lodge in the Senate fight against the League of Nations) piled a plurality of 128,000 votes over Newark's Mayor Vincent J. Murphy, supported by Jersey City's Frank Hague, the Communists, A.F. of L., C.I.O., and Frank Sinatra...
Governor Edison campaigned mainly for revision of the New Jersey constitution, a hoary anachronism which gave Boss Hague plenty of room to spread his tentacles through the state even under an unfriendly governor. Revision won by 136,000 votes. Charles Edison, who entered New Jersey politics as an amateur, left the state with an achievement no professional could match: he had clipped Boss Hague's powers after a reign of 26 years...
Doris Duke ("The Richest Girl") Cromwell, separated three years from ambitious James Henry Roberts Cromwell, ex-Minister to Canada, turned out to have secretly sued him for divorce, in Reno a fortnight ago. She charged cruelty. He had already sued last September in New Jersey, charging desertion. Last week the struggle seemed likely to be shrill. The tobacco heiress charged that Jimmy had demanded $7 million as a financial settlement. He promptly denied it; his attorneys sadly remarked that now he might have to "present to the courts matters which he had hoped, out of kindness to her, would remain...