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...bathed and about to dress for dinner at the Washington home of Attorney General Cummings, Author Herbert George Wells was dismayed to find that he had left his white waistcoat in Manhattan. All stores were closed. Author Wells called vainly upon the hotels, then telephoned his good friend George Creel, War-time head of the U. S. Propaganda Bureau. Democrat Creel was wearing his only white waistcoat to the Cummings dinner. He, however, called Chairman Henry P. Fletcher of the Republican National Committee. Soon Republican Fletcher's waistcoat arrived-without buttons. Author Wells clutched it about his middle, hurried...
Ditched by George Creel, whom he defeated in the Democratic primary, and cast adrift by the Roosevelt Administration, Nominee Sinclair could draw little encouragement from a belated speech by California's Senator McAdoo at Phoenix, Ariz, in which he ambiguously declared: "I am supporting the Democratic party in California as I am supporting the Demo-cratic party in Arizona and the Demo-cratic party in America." Senator McAdoo's law partner, William H. Neblett, was voting for Republican Nominee Frank Merriam because "Sinclair's program is nothing more than a contest of the unemployed against the employed...
...complete Nominee Sinclair's discomfiture, George Creel, Wartime propaganda chief whom, as the Administration's favorite, Sinclair had defeated in the primaries, repudiated the winning candidate. In a public letter, Democrat Creel charged Democrat Sinclair with failing to stand on the party platform, with pushing his own "Immediate Epic" plan in violation of agreements at the State convention. Declared disgusted Mr. Creel: "I think any one who votes in California this fall has to hold his nose. It's a choice between catalepsy and epilepsy. Sinclair has a fantastic, impossible plan and Merriam is as modern...
...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...
...primary votes, Acting Governor Merriam could count on most of the 385,000 cast for ex-Governor Young and John R. Quinn, chairman of the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors. That total of 731,000 roughly equaled the Sinclair 446,000 primary vote and George Creel's 288,000, although many a Creel follower would not vote for Sinclair. Primary figures, however, could not possibly tell the story because hundreds of thousands have subsequently registered to vote Nov. 6. This whopping registration was due in no small part to the activities of alarmed businessmen, many of whom sent their...