Word: californianism
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...would deflate many an "educated" man's ego to see how helpless he would be in a job he had hitherto considered beneath his dignity and calling. And definition of the age is one thing a college education does not at ways include. --The Daily Californian...
From Hyde Park the Californian went to Manhattan, met Postmaster General Farley who said "Call me Jim," went on to Washington, saw Relief Administrator Hopkins, Secretaries Morgenthau and Ickes, Chairman Jesse Jones of RFC, Chairman John H. Fahey of the Home Loan Bank Board, Governor William Irving Myers of the Farm Credit Administration. Still enthusiastic, Mr. Sinclair declared: "I won't quote anybody as approving my campaign but I will say that . . . not one official expressed the opinion that my plan [End Poverty In California] was not practical. ... I am going back to assure the people of California that...
...Less effusive was another Californian who followed Mr. Sinclair as a visitor to Hyde Park. Senator William G. McAdoo returned from Europe by no means pleased at Sinclair's nomination over his own candidate, George Creel. "Personally I like Mr. Sinclair very much," he admitted noncommittally. Then he entered the Roosevelt study. Later the President told newshawks that "very little, if any," politics had been discussed...
...above the restaurant, Representative Braswell Deen of Georgia tried to yank back into his seat another Democrat who had risen to vote with Republicans. Republican Ralph Eltse of California leaped across the aisle, flung Mr. Deen roughly into another seat. The Georgian rose and doubled up his fists. The Californian raised his hands defensively. The sergeant-at-arms scurried up the aisle and escorted Mr. Deen from the chamber...
...note with deep interest Mr. Frederick J. Koster's (TIME, May 7) statement that California's attitude toward the Japanese immigrant has changed completely. Could there possibly be any connection between this Californian or at least Kosterian changed attitude and the fact that both Mexican and Negro labor is becoming unionized...