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Post Road (by Wilbur Daniel Steele & Norma Mitchell; Potter & Haight, producers) starts out as a folksy little drama about some harmless muttonheads who run a roadside boarding house on the highway between New York and Boston. The play is half over before the audience suddenly learns that the guest who said he was a doctor and the young woman who he said was his patient are really a pair of kidnappers and the baby whose delivery the doctor apparently effected, their tiny victim. Authors Steele & Mitchell (Mrs. Steele) are old hands in the theatre. So are Producers Potter & Haight (Double...
...Merriam forces were straining every resource last week to beg, borrow or steal the voting strength of a Progressive candidate named Raymond LeRoy Haight of Los Angeles. He polled 85,000 votes on the Republican ticket, has a clean record, is a sworn foe of corporate interests. Most of his votes would go to Merriam if he withdrew. But Progressive Haight, who is only 38, seemed quite willing to have Acting Governor Merriam defeated and put aside, on the theory that by 1938 the electorate's disgust with Sinclair will give Haight a real chance of election...
...race for governorship nominations. Many were the candidates. On the Republican side, Acting Governor Merriam, Lawyer Raymond LeRoy Haight and former Governor Clement Calhoun Young were among those asking voters to listen to their eloquence. On the Democratic side George Creel, Wartime Chief of Propaganda, backed by William Gibbs McAdoo; Justus Wardell, oldtime politician, and a handful of others all called to Californians to heed them. But the man whom Californians heeded?favorably and unfavorably?had no machine backing, was no politician and broke all the rules of politics. He was journalist, pamphleteer, reformer, and his name was Upton Sinclair...
...perfect combination. Messrs. Haight & Alcock had such clients as Standard Oil of Indiana and A. O. Smith Corp. But they found time for daily table-thumping conferences with Lawyer Goldstein, who did most of the drudgery. In four years, Mr. Goldstein spent 14,000 hours on the case, wore out three secretaries. He grew so preoccupied that he failed to recognize friends in the halls of his office. Messrs. Haight, Alcock & Goldstein took the case on a contingent basis-no victory, no fees, no expenses. They spent thousands from their own pockets and borrowed $210,000 from the City...
From their $1,552,000 fee, Messrs. Haight, Alcock & Goldstein will have to repay their loan from the City of Chicago. High-bracket income taxes will take another $400,000 to $500,000. The division of the remainder was secret, but La Salle Street expected Lawyer Goldstein to receive at least a half for his four-year campaign...