Word: creel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With his radical EPIC program (TIME, Sept. 3), Upton Sinclair defeated George Creel, a liberal Democrat backed by the McAdoo machine, by a 3-to-2 plurality. The greatest Sinclair strength was developed in and around Los Angeles, home of Aimee Semple McPherson, Cecil B. DeMille and Utopia, Inc. At the same time the Republicans nominated by an even heavier plurality a thoroughgoing conservative, Acting Governor Frank F. Merriam. Inevitable result: California's November election will be fought not on party lines but on the issue of economic radicalism and experimentation. That issue definitely jeopardizes the Democrats' chance of carrying...
...race for governorship nominations. Many were the candidates. On the Republican side, Acting Governor Merriam, Lawyer Raymond LeRoy Haight and former Governor Clement Calhoun Young were among those asking voters to listen to their eloquence. On the Democratic side George Creel, Wartime Chief of Propaganda, backed by William Gibbs McAdoo; Justus Wardell, oldtime politician, and a handful of others all called to Californians to heed them. But the man whom Californians heeded?favorably and unfavorably?had no machine backing, was no politician and broke all the rules of politics. He was journalist, pamphleteer, reformer, and his name was Upton Sinclair...
Summa Cum Laude degrees were awarded to the following 16 men: Meyer Howard Abrams, Long Branch, New Jersey; Edward Augustus Ackerman, Spokane, Washington; Daniel Joseph Boorstin, Tulsa, Oklahoma; Donald David Cody, Hartford, Connecticut; Robert Calhoun Creel, Cambridge; Oscar Hirsh Davis, Mount Vernon, New York; Edward Settle Godfrey, 3rd, Albany, New York; Richard Murphey Goodwin, Newcastle, Indiana; Gove Griffith Johnson, Jr., Washington, D. C.; Robert Kaplan, Cambridge; Paul Lachlan MacKendrick, Roslindale; John Arthur Martin, Bangor, Maine; John Barzillai Rackliffe, Newton; John Thomas Sapieuze, Irvington, New Jersey; John William Walsh, Jr., Quincy...
Four seniors, who are graduating with highest honors, will be able to travel abroad next fall, as holders of Frederick Sheldon Prize Fellowships. They are Clement Lowell Harriss '34, of Omaha, Nob.; Gove Griffith Johnson Jr., '34, of Washington, D. C.; Robert Calhoun Creel '34, of Cambridge, Mass.; and John Arthur Martin '34, of Banger...
...Carl Dickey is a member of the Manhattan press-agent firm of Carl Byoir & Associates. Carl Byoir, onetime publisher of the Havana Post and Telegram, developed to his full stature under George Creel in the Wartime propaganda service. From Publicist Dickey the committee learned that in 1933 the Byoir agency had received $4.000 from Consul Kiep to "explain" Hitlerite anti-Semitism in publicity releases. Since then the firm has handled a $6,000-a-month campaign publicizing German Railways, travel in Germany. Of the $6,000 monthly fee, said Mr. Dickey, $1.750 went to George Sylvester Viereck...