Word: creel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senator and Governor in California. He has a face that looks like Henry Ford gone slightly fey, a pleasing voice, a wide smile and immense persuasiveness on the rostrum. He hitched EPIC to the New Deal, implied Rooseveltian approval. Too late Senator William Gibbs McAdoo rushed Wartime Propagandist George Creel into the breach. At the primary last August ex-Socialist Sinclair trounced Democrat Creel by nearly 150,000 votes, received a majority over all eight of his opponents, polled the largest Democratic primary vote of any candidate in California history. Democratic registration outnumbered the Republican total for the first time...
...result of his Eastern junket, word was spread through the Democracy that genial Mr. Sinclair could be "handled." Told off to do the handling in California were Messrs. McAdoo and Creel. At the Democratic State Convention the party platform failed to mention the name EPIC, made no commitments as to the Sinclair proposals for land colonies, scrip, bond issues, high income taxes or pensions. EPIC was emasculated save for pledges to put the unemployed to work at productive labor, enabling them to produce what they could consume; to put the State's credit and resources behind cooperative self-help...
...copies, advocated that all essential work be done free by Commons aged 18 to 26, who would thereafter engage at will in capitalistic luxury industries as public-supported Capitals* (TIME, Oct. 23). Best that Dr. Townsend could yet produce in the way of names was to say that George Creel was going to try to get him an interview with President Roosevelt. In Manhattan, on his way to Washington, Mr. Creel predicted that the Plan would presently burst upon the country...
...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...
...Said Hamilton Cotton, who ran George Creel's campaign: "I sorrowfully concede the rape of the Democratic Party in California by Upton Sinclair...