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...Hand. At 47, New Jersey's Meyner is an old hand at upsetting applecarts. One of the most eligible bachelors in U.S. politics, he practiced law in Jersey City and home-town Phillipsburg, went to the state senate in 1947, became one of the leaders in ousting Jersey City's Boss Frank Hague from the seat of Democratic power in 1949. Four years later Meyner was nominated for governor. He promptly announced that, win or lose in the general election, he was assuming direct personal leadership of the state organization and intended to retain it for the next...
...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...
Feet on the Screen. All this was pure windfall for the Democratic candidate, former State Senator Robert Baumle Meyner (pronounced miner), 45, an eager small-town (Phillipsburg, pop. 19,000) lawyer whose key supporter is Jersey City's current Democratic boss, Mayor John V. Kenny. The Democratic record stems from ex-Boss Frank Hague and is deeply scarred by bossism and unbridled corruption-but this time the Democrats have been successful in wrapping themselves in the mantle of reform. Hague's nephew, former Mayor Frank Hague Eggers of Jersey City, is supporting Troast. One of Meyner...
...American coop. To help ease the fertilizer shortage, C.C.A. will build a $16 million nitrogen plant at Lawrence, Kans. with $6,000,000 borrowed from C.C.A. members and the rest from the RFC. C.C.A. will also build a 5,000-barrel-a-day catalytic cracker for its refinery at Phillipsburg, Kans., open $1,000,000 worth of lumber kilns at its mill in Swisshome...
Minor Sports H to David D. Calrus '52, Wareham; Clarke Coggeshall '52, New York City; David P. Gregory '52, Charlottesville, Va.; Paul R. Judy '53, Muncls, Ind.; Alan H. Master '52, Brooklyn, N. Y.; John H. Pankey '51, Phillipsburg, Mont.; Richard M. White '51, Denver, Colo.; and Norman V. Teem '52, Springfield, Mo. Undergraduate Manager. Also a Major H in minor Colors to Richard M. White '51, Denve, Cole, for winning three varsity letters in cross country...