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Frank Merriam is a moon-faced lowan who crept into Sacramento as Lieutenant Governor in 1930, succeeded to the Governorship when "Sunny Jim" Rolph died last year and black-jacked California's influential Republicans into nominating him against Sinclair by threatening to withhold State troops from the San Francisco strike last summer. He is an arch political trimmer, paying harmless lip service to the Townsend Plan and at the same time complaining to his capitalist supporters that he is surrounded by fanatics. But even Frank Merriam could not trim the fact that California desperately needed revenue...
...progress, the Nonpartisan League-controlled House had impeached Democratic Governor Thomas Hilliard Moodie twelve days after his inauguration for unspecified "crime, corrupt conduct, malfeasance and misdemeanors in office." Everyone knew the real charges were that: 1) having admittedly voted in Minnesota in 1930, he was ineligible for the governorship under North Dakota's constitutional requirement of five years' continuous residence: 2) Canadian-born, he had never been naturalized a citizen...
...constitutional requirement a North Dakotan must have lived five consecutive years in the State to be eligible for the Governorship. Husky, mop-haired "Tom" Moodie is an oldtime itinerant newshawk whose restless feet have carried him through newspaper shops from Cleveland to San Francisco to New Orleans. For ten years he has lived chiefly in North Dakota, the last four as editor of his own paper at Williston. But in 1930 the urge to move took him to Minneapolis for a time. When North Dakota Republicans discovered that he had voted that year in Minnesota, they secured an injunction which...
Nebraska's Roy L. Cochran, on his way to the Governorship, was last week also on his way to Washington to consult about relief. Reserved, tall, grey, portly, he tackles his problems like the engineer that he is and his relief problem is not like that of most Governors. His State has no debt whatever; its pay-as-you-go policy has paid for all State highways and for the $10,000,000 State Capitol. Nebraska's freedom from debt is due, however, to statutory restrictions on the issue of bonds. Nebraska has had to leave her problems...
Kokomo's most picturesque politician is Olin R. Holt, a thickset, debonair bachelor of 39 who wears horn-rimmed glasses and dresses to the nines. In 1924 he was out for Indiana's Governorship with Ku Klux Klan support. Denied the Democratic nomination, he returned home to cultivate his Baptist and American Legion following, build a local machine. In 1930 his political activities were interrupted by the Department of Justice, which found that Lawyer Holt and the Howard County sheriff had organized a "Hoosier Protective Association" which assessed local bootleggers $3 a week in return for legal...