453:, May 29, 1990. Accessed December 28, 2017. "Mr. Meyner was 45 years old and had held only one elective office, one term as a State Senator, when he was selected by a group of influential New Jersey Democrats as the organization's candidate for Governor in 1953. As the candidate of a shattered and nearly bankrupt Democratic Party in a state that had not elected a Democrat to statewide office since 1940, the little-known candidate was given little chance.... He also deftly engendered scandal, disclosing that his Republican opponent in 1953, Paul T. Troast, a wealthy building contractor, had written to Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York urging clemency for a notorious labor racketeer, Joseph Fay, then in a New York prison."
361:. Accessed December 28, 2017. "When New Jersey’s new toll super-highway is completed in two years, it will materially relieve the congestion and overloading on the public highway system, Paul L. Troast, chairman of the New Jersey Turnpike Authority, declared today.... 'There is no doubt in the minds of the New Jersey Turnpike Authority that the super-highway will relieve north-south traffic congestion on the public highways, especially in the highly industrialized areas of the north, from Elizabeth to the Turnpike’s northern terminus near the George Washington Bridge,' commented Mr. Troast."
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the road in 11 months, completing the whole (project) in less than two years. . . . When the commissioners broached the subject of landscaping the road. . . . the governor told them he wanted a road to take the interstate traffic . . . off New Jersey's existing roads. Since 85 percent of the traffic at that time was estimated to be from out of state, why spend additional funds on landscaping?"
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490:, November 4, 1953. Accessed December 28, 2017. "Robert B. Meyner, youthful Democratic lawyer, was elected Governor of New Jersey by a surprising landslide plurality.... Although Mr. Meyner had been expected to defeat his Republican opponent, Paul L. Troast, the predictions were for an exceedingly close race."
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Construction Executive Paul L. Troast, a leader in the revolt of Kress Foundation directors that stripped Rush Kress of power. Command of the slipping company (sales slid from $ 176 million in 1952 to $ 159 million last year) will be shared
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343:, February 1, 1949. Accessed December 28, 2017. "Governor Driscoll nominated one of the three members of the new State Turnpike Authority, created to establish 'luxury' highways to be financed by tolls. Paul L. Troast of Passaic, president of the Mahony-Troast Construction Company, was named."
224:. But his campaigning has been as flat as his turnpike. He was overconfident, started too late, and let the Democrats gobble up most of the best radio and television time.... Troast suffered his roundest wallop early in October, when newspapers broke the story that Troast had asked New York's
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