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Last month, noting the fact that he had served longer than anyone else in California for such an offense, the parole board paroled him. But public protest induced Governor Culbert Olson to ask the board to rescind the action...
...blame for their sorry record, adjourn with the least possible damage to their party. New York's Democrat Herbert Lehman recalled his Legislature to Albany to repair a budget which a Republican majority had unconstitutionally cut. But the unhappiest, unluckiest Governor of 1939 was California's Democrat Culbert Levy Olson...
Four days after his inauguration he collapsed, discovered that he had an ailing heart. His wife died. His son and secretary, Richard, sadly embarrassed him by talking too much and out of turn. And midway of his first Legislature in Sacramento, Culbert Olson had learned enough to moan that the Laborites and assorted liberals who concerted to elect him had made a disastrous mistake. They let Republican conservatives retain control in the Senate, Democratic conservatives in the lower Assembly. Before it adjourned last week after the longest (133 days) biennial session in California history, California's Legislature...
...Voted down Culbert Olson's cherished compulsory health-insurance-for-all (TIME...
...administrative fields where the Legislature could not hamstring him, Culbert Olson did what he promised, started a cleanup of workmen's compensation administration, building & loan scandals, other dung-heaps in the backyard which he had inherited from old Frank Merriam. To the $30-Every-Thursday Ham-&-Eggers who helped install him, he promised a special election to give their pension plan a chance this fall, talked of tacking to it a proposal to recall the legislators who wrecked his program. Culbert Olson hoped to be to California what he thinks...