Word: californias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Green Cheese. If the political potency of pension promises is the result of lunacy, then California is not alone in being moonstruck. Lee ("Pass the Biscuits Pappy") O'Daniel demonstrated the stump value of old age pensions in winning the Democratic nomination (virtual election) for Governor of Texas. Colorado is going gently broke because its promisers tried to give the oldsters too much ($45 a month). Last week Franklin Roosevelt, the smartest politician in the big U. S., recommended that the Social Security Act should be revised to extend its benefits to another...
...good eyesight of basically healthy California appeared already to be discovering that the overfull moon which hung above the State was made of green cheese. Dopesters give the "Ham & Eggs" one chance in three of winning. Pathetic appeared the lot of those who have spent their pennies supporting it, but tragic will be the political fate of Sheridan Downey and his managers if, having won nomination through "Ham & Eggs," they are swamped by reaction against...
Mandolins & Pistols. The ebb tide against which Mr. Downey now fights is led by another lawyer and reader of economics, a man whose father sold the University of California its history library and who was known in his younger days as a Progressive: Philip Bancroft, a harmless-looking but sharp-spoken gentleman-farmer from in back of Mount Diablo near Oakland...
...Philip Bancroft is elected a California Senator this year, a main reason will be because Sheridan Downey is oversold as a Ham & Egger. Candidate Bancroft's father left him and his brother enough money and land in and around San Francisco for Philip, returning unwell from the War, to give up lawyering in the city and go to raising walnuts and pears (at which he is a champion), and practicing leadership at farmers' association meetings. A quiet, pipe-smoking type who (like Downey) really wants the results more than the office, Philip Bancroft talks sharply about the "racketeering...
...prune-proud San Jose, Calif., at a breakfast that was prunes from end to end, the California Chiropractors' Association suggested in a friendly way that the prune be renamed "Petite Pomme Noire d'Amour" (Little Black Apple of Love). Prune-growers favored simply...