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...male embodiment in long knitted underwear. The audience guffawed. Old Bob did not see the apparition and the audience recognized it only as some University of Michigan fraternity neophyte. This year that ghost is the prime champion of human derelicts in U.S. politics, and he is recognized as Sheridan Downey, Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate in the great and screwy State of California...
...inserting announcements promoting their products. In radio, the advertiser not only does his own announcing, he puts on his own show. Time was when the networks had a larger part in finding and developing talent for advertisers to buy. President Paley takes credit for "discovering" Kate Smith, Morton Downey, Bing Crosby. But more recently advertising agencies have found how to do this job for themselves, need less help from the networks. Nevertheless, President Paley is still very much in show business. About five-eighths of Columbia's time is sustaining, must be filled with free shows. CBS prides itself...
...every-Thursday" for every retired Californian over 50 is the golden promise which fortnight ago won Sheridan Downey the Democratic nomination for the U. S. Senate over Senator William G. McAdoo. The scheme would add an estimated $1,315,766,400 to the State budget. How Californian capital cottons to this benign idea of legislating Utopia became apparent last week when California offered for sale for unemployment relief $2,000,000 worth of registered warrants payable in February. Such State borrowings as recently as August 12 were easily sold at .75%. Last week there was but one bid, from Bankamerica...
Though "Ham & Eggs'' is a purely Californian movement so far, it and Mr. Downey, should he reach the U. S. Senate, spelled stomachache for President Roosevelt because they further revive the old age pension plague, which was supposed to have subsided with Dr. Townsend...
Susceptible Mr. Downey will be opposed for the Senate in November, incomplete returns indicated, by Republican Philip Bancroft, 57, an American Legionnaire and lawyer (Harvard), son of famed His torian Hubert Howe Bancroft. For 20 years well-to-do, wavy-haired Lawyer Ban croft has interested himself in raising pears and walnuts across the Bay from San Francisco. By his activities in Associated Farmers of California, which fought unionization of farm workers, he has earned the enmity of Labor. He has urged that to obtain local Relief, "Californians" be required to prove five years' residence; for old age pensions...