Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Factional Peacemaker. Setting foot on New Jersey soil, Joe Martin stepped squarely into the middle of a fratricidal party brawl over the senatorial candidacy of liberal-minded Republican Clifford Case. No man was better suited than Martin to play the part of factional peacemaker. To Case backers, Martin appeared as President Eisenhower's loyal congressional leader. To Case's right-wing enemies, Martin was as close to a conservative "Mr. Republican" as anybody since Bob Taft. He carried the same message to the politicians who chewed cigars in the back seat of his campaign limousine...
...Case was straight and hard. Said he: "You can't make a better contribution to Eisenhower, to the country, or to the Republican Party than to elect Cliff Case to the Senate this fall." Breathed Case: "Thank God for Joe Martin." On that point, at least, New Jersey Republicans seemed agreed...
...Haughton put an end to that by threatening to paint the ball red, white and blue. But the Indians had an unending supply of good-natured guile. Once before, Quarterback Frank Mount Pleasant had waited patiently for the right opportunity, shoved the ball under Teammate Charlie Dillon's jersey, and almost beat Harvard with a hidden-ball touchdown...
...kettle a pot. There is disunity in the Republican Party. He acknowledged that some Republicans think Idaho's Senator Henry Dworshak is too conservative. "But what are you going to do? Elect that cowboy (former Democratic Senator Glen Taylor) instead?" He granted that other Republicans believe that New Jersey's Senate Nominee Clifford Case is too liberal, "but we've got to get 48 votes in the Senate. Let's get that into our heads...
Giant Killers. What has happened to the giants of the early 1900s? Of the 100 largest industrial corporations in 1909, only 36 appeared on a similar list drawn up for 1948. U.S. Steel dropped from first place to third; Standard Oil (later Jersey Standard) moved up from second to first. Most swings were much wider. Sears, Roebuck rose from 42nd to 13th, Western Electric from 51st to 14th and Texas Co. from 87th to sixth, while Pullman Co. dropped from eighth to 81st, Singer Manufacturing from 13th to 79th and Pittsburgh Coal (now Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal) from 15th to 94th...