Word: meyner
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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...kicked away their chance to hold the governorship (TIME. Nov. 2). Exposes of corruption, intraparty strife, a colorless candidate and an inept campaign put practically all of the local issues on the Democratic side. The Democrats ably seized the advantage and held it. Their nominee, Lawyer Robert Baumle Meyner, a bachelor from Phillipsburg (pop. 19,000), beat Republican Nominee Paul Troast, a wealthy building contractor, by 154,000 votes...
...governorship: "Public disgust" over the scandals that had touched the New Jersey G.O.P. The last straw, they thought, was Republican Candidate Troast's admission that he had asked New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey to commute the sentence of Labor Extortionist Joey Fay. Winner Meyner (rhymes with signer) disagreed heartily with the interpretation that got him headlines across the nation. He thought he had won on local issues, didn't think his victory was any reflection on the Eisenhower Administration...
Across the river in New Jersey, Robert B. Meyner was elected the state's first Democratic governor in ten years in a contest billed as a popularity test for the Elsenhower administration. Incomplete returns, gave Meyner 742,587 votes to 581,900 for his rival, Republican Pal L. Troast...
Than to vote for Robert Meyner...
Last spring, a Republican victory in New Jersey seemed so sure that hardly anyone wanted the Democratic nomination for governor. But Meyner has gained steadily. Last week, the most reliable New Jersey poll put him ahead. The Republicans of New Jersey may lose an election they should have been able to win easily. And even if they squeak through they can be credited with rejuvenating a weary and confused Jersey Democratic Party...