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...trouble with another issue that turns one way in the nation, another in New Jersey: corruption. Nationally, the most important corruption issue at the height of the campaign is the Federal Housing Administration scandal, a hangover from a Democratic Administration. In New Jersey the old mess in Trenton overshadows the old mess in Washington. Democrats are constantly and joyfully reminding the Republicans and the voters that one recent Republican governor (Harold G. Hoffman, who served in 1935-38) embezzled $300,000 from the state, another G.O.P. governor's executive clerk has been indicted for taking protection money from gangsters...
Rabbit & Hounds. The question of organized-party effort, important everywhere, has taken on a special significance this year in New Jersey. A spectacularly revived Democratic organization is moving full force behind Senatorial Candidate Howell, a gangling (6 ft. 2 in., 200 Ibs.) three-term Congressman from Trenton. The key man in the organization is not Howell (whose pet project on Capitol Hill has been the establishment of a Federal Fine Arts Commission), but New Jersey Governor Robert Meyner...
Apples & Boots. The Revolution was brewing in Peale's heart: he solemnly refused to tip his hat to King George. Home again, he painted flags for military companies, soon commanded a company himself, fought at Princeton and Trenton. Once, when his company suddenly deserted him to rob an orchard on the line of march, Peale had the presence of mind to call after them an order to fall out. Also, he made warm boots for his men in winter. But if they loved him, the enemy had little reason to fear him. He became a pacifist who passionately hated...
...state funds to cover his takings, but that was not all. Governor Meyner suspended four state officials, released 44 pages of detailed charges indicating that the scandal spread far into Jersey politics. Sample charges: ¶ Hoffman deposited $3,427,000 of state money without interest in the Trenton Trust Co., run by his friend and. fellow Republican, Mrs. Mary Gindhart Roebling (whose late husband's family built the Brooklyn Bridge). This enabled her bank to earn about $300,000 in the last five years. The Trenton Trust Co., in turn deposited $150,000 last year in a non-interest...
...they told Schine that even if they got it up there that night he would not be able to play it since it would need to be installed by a technician. Incensed, so the story goes, Schine rushed to his room, got on the phone, called Mr. Ansley in Trenton, and told him that he wanted a technician immediately. After some argument, Ansley agreed and a technician grabbed a plane, installed the piano, and flew back again. With the piano installed, Schine sat down, ran his fingers along the keyboard and said "Well, I guess...