Word: knowlands
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Dates: during 1936-1936
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...platform, picks the Republican candidate. To run in California's primary, however, would have been to risk repudiation in his home State, to endanger his whole aim. Three stanch allies he had who shared his aims: Publisher George Toland Cameron of the San Francisco Chronicle; Publisher Joseph Russell Knowland of the Oakland Tribune; Publisher Harry Chandler of the Los Angeles Times. That gave the ex-President one Old Guard paper in each of California's three metropolitan areas. Several months ago the Hoover plans were well afoot: to name an uninstructed Conservative-controlled delegation to the Republican convention...