Word: mcadoos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jersey, for Congressman, Senator and Governor in California. He has a face that looks like Henry Ford gone slightly fey, a pleasing voice, a wide smile and immense persuasiveness on the rostrum. He hitched EPIC to the New Deal, implied Rooseveltian approval. Too late Senator William Gibbs McAdoo rushed Wartime Propagandist George Creel into the breach. At the primary last August ex-Socialist Sinclair trounced Democrat Creel by nearly 150,000 votes, received a majority over all eight of his opponents, polled the largest Democratic primary vote of any candidate in California history. Democratic registration outnumbered the Republican total...
...result of his Eastern junket, word was spread through the Democracy that genial Mr. Sinclair could be "handled." Told off to do the handling in California were Messrs. McAdoo and Creel. At the Democratic State Convention the party platform failed to mention the name EPIC, made no commitments as to the Sinclair proposals for land colonies, scrip, bond issues, high income taxes or pensions. EPIC was emasculated save for pledges to put the unemployed to work at productive labor, enabling them to produce what they could consume; to put the State's credit and resources behind cooperative self-help...
...circulation in its first year is a baffling fact. But last week Editor Raymond Moley proved that, if he is not a successful editor, he is an honest one. His subject was California's Upton ("Epic") Sinclair. Had he aped all bigwig Democrats-Senator William Gibbs ("McAdoodle") McAdoo or James Aloysius Farley or even No. 1 Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt-he would have scratched the back of Democracy's latest, queerest duckling. Instead, spunky Editor Moley wrote...
...Less effusive was another Californian who followed Mr. Sinclair as a visitor to Hyde Park. Senator William G. McAdoo returned from Europe by no means pleased at Sinclair's nomination over his own candidate, George Creel. "Personally I like Mr. Sinclair very much," he admitted noncommittally. Then he entered the Roosevelt study. Later the President told newshawks that "very little, if any," politics had been discussed...
Leon Fraser, president of the World Bank for International Settlements, foresaw an early return to the gold standard. . . . William Gibbs McAdoo had always found Upton Sinclair "a fine fellow and one of genuine sincerity . . . but I don't want to commit myself." . . . Sir Ronald Lindsay, British Ambassador, boomed and hawed amiably, sang a snatch of Gilbert & Sullivan. . . . Frank Arthur Vanderlip tossed pearls that he might have sold to the Saturday Evening Post: "My deductions from talk with Minister of Economics Schacht is that things in Germany will be worse before they get better. Their need of cotton is acute. Their...