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...very timely hour when far cannier politicians were beginning to see the possibility of making pensions for senior citizens a juicier political racket than the ancient political exploitation of pensions for war veterans. Sheridan Downey won California's Democratic nomination for Senator from Senior Citizen William Gibbs McAdoo, 75. The manager of that performance was one Jackson Elliott...
...Elliott of Los Angeles is a political hack, unillusioned, practical, alert. He managed Senator McAdoo's successful campaign in 1932. Perceiving how ebullient Sheridan Downey from northern California (Atherton, hard by Herbert Hoover's Palo Alto) had run ahead of Author Sinclair in the EPIC campaign, Jackson Elliott cocked an eye at him for 1938 because he knew where lay the biggest unstaked bloc of votes for that year-among EPIC and Townsend-conscious oldsters...
...line's ships, $3,000,000 more by way of annual subsidy to meet foreign competition. New Dollar Lines president is Joseph R. Sheehan, who resigns as the Commission's executive director. Xew Dollar Lines chairman (at a maximum salary of $25,000) is Senator William Gibbs McAdoo-who introduced the first shipping bill in Congress in 1914. Ever since that old Democratic wheelhorse lost the Senatorial renomination in California in August, it has been supposed that the New Deal would find him a secure berth...
First Crew--Stroke, Fales, H.; 7, McAdoo; 6, Bodine; 5, Clark; 4, Shepley; 3, Batchelor; 2, Forker; bow, Belliot; cox, Hewlett...
Defeated by local issues, not involved in the Purge-California's McAdoo, Idaho's Pope...