Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...October 1954, the U.S. political scene is a multicolored landscape of issues and personalities, with the commanding figure of Dwight D. Eisenhower giving a national shading to the whole picture. The color and design of the campaign vary from state to state, but within the narrow borders of New Jersey there is a striking miniature of the national scene. At work there are nearly all the factors that bear on the elections of 1954, highlighted by Jersey's own style of politics...
...sense, New Jersey is a Democratic state: it is heavily industrialized, has a substantial organized labor vote. In another sense, it is an Eisenhower Republican state: its suburban areas lying outside New York City and Philadelphia are populated largely by commuters-business and professional men. It has its McCarthy element, centered squarely in Democratic Hudson County (Jersey City), where Frank ("I Am the Law") Hague (now retired) built his machine. In recent years New Jersey has developed an aura of political corruption, although it is well-supplied with reformers...
While this complex set of circumstances is affecting the whole campaign in New Jersey, it is wound tightest around Clifford Case Jr., a gaunt (6 ft, 158 Ibs.), intense, intelligent lawyer from Rahway (pop. 21,000), who is the Republican nominee for U.S. Senator...
...writing their lyrics, the anti-Case faction ignored the fact that the New Jersey A.D.A. (which has found both Case and Howell "endorsable"), is a minuscule organization with no real political strength. But to the ultraconservative element of New Jersey, it was a handy bad word to tie to Cliff Case. From the start, the movement had no chance of getting Case off the ballot. No important leader of New Jersey Republicanism ever joined it. There was talk about a write-in campaign for former U.S. Representative Fred Hartley (Taft-Hartley), but no one thought has-been Hartley would...
...Bicentennial through reports of conferences last Spring, have only really met the Bicentennial through reports of conferences in the Spectator. Perhaps as anything has come to making this year stand out over any other has been the sodding of 116th Street with the grass from a New Jersey polo field...