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...They see him not merely as a perfect political candidate, but as the forerunner in U.S. politics of a new era of friendly men to succeed the recent era of angry men-the era of the Burt Wheelers, the Fiorello LaGuardias, the Huey Longs, the Harold Ickeses and the Culbert Olsons...
...enraged growers by plumping for collective ownership as the answer to California's farm problems (TIME, April 1, 1940). An organizer of The John Steinbeck Committee (bitter enemy of California's Associated Farmers), McWilliams was appointed (1939) California Commissioner of Immigration and Housing by newly elected Governor Culbert L. Olson. He held the post for four years, campaigned vigorously against Republican Nominee for Governor Earl Warren. When Warren, strongly supported by the Associated Farmers, took office as Governor last January, he called in the press, announced that his first official act would be the dismissal of Commissioner McWilliams...
...able Thomas H. Eliot will head the British Division in the London Bureau of OWL But the list of defeated, deserving Democrats is much longer than three; and the ambitions of some of the candidates are not as restrained as Senator Brown's. California's bumbling Governor Culbert Levy Olson blithely told friends in Washington last week his eyes were lifted toward the Supreme Court vacancy...
...Culbert Olson, running far behind on the Democratic ticket, was soundly trounced by bustling Republican Attorney General Earl Warren. Although there was hardly a crackpot candidate or crackpot issue in the campaign, it was still one of the nation's liveliest. Comely Actress Helen Gahagan, Democratic National Committeewoman, shouted herself hoarse for Olson. Gregarious Actor Leo Carrillo, descendant of California's first provisional Governor, added gags to humorless Earl Warren's meetings. Typical Carrillo quip: introducing Warren to "my cousins" in the audience...
Olson and Warren tangled in one hot debate; both claimed they won. Californians preferred energetic Earl Warren to fumbling, wrangling Culbert Olson, whose administration had never come to grips with the State's urgent problems...