Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That was the lesson which Republican Governor Alfred Driscoll of New Jersey read to his party colleagues last month when he won one of the few Republican victories in 1949 (TIME, Nov. 21). The lesson was read again last week by New York's independent-minded Senator Irving Ives...
...sheriff. In the next few days he lunched with Fan Dancer Sally Rand at the Junior Chamber of Commerce, judged a beauty contest, went to a Neiman-Marcus fashion show, played jazz piano for the girls at a local prep school and lunched with the Rotarians. For jovial New Jersey-born Hendl, it was all part of his new job as conductor of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra...
Impatient with the State Department's attitude (definable as doing nothing and trying to be proud of it), New Jersey's conscientious Senator H. Alexander Smith, one of the strongest Republican supporters of the bipartisan foreign policy, had boarded a troop ship last September and sailed for Yokohama. He conferred with Douglas MacArthur and spent three weeks (at his own expense) in eastern Asia. Last week he made public his recommendations, which had at least the merit of being a positive attempt to deal with a tragic situation while it could still be dealt with...
Parnell Thomas, who in his 203 had changed his name from Feeney to Thomas, and his religion from Catholic to Episcopal, had served his New Jersey district in Congress for twelve years, had even been re-elected last November with the charges hanging over him. He had indignantly denied them then. Due in federal court for sentencing this week, he was expected also to resign from Congress, to let a better American take his place...
Handsome, 54-year-old Harry Darby was as Republican as Kansas itself. A national committeeman, he turned down the national chairmanship this year, before it was handed to New Jersey's Guy Gabrielson. Darby wrenched control of Kansas' Republican delegation from Alf Landon last year and led it on to the Dewey bandwagon-and was one of the rare few who warned Deweymen that the Republicans might lose the 1948 election...