Word: mcadoos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With his radical EPIC program (TIME, Sept. 3), Upton Sinclair defeated George Creel, a liberal Democrat backed by the McAdoo machine, by a 3-to-2 plurality. The greatest Sinclair strength was developed in and around Los Angeles, home of Aimee Semple McPherson, Cecil B. DeMille and Utopia, Inc. At the same time the Republicans nominated by an even heavier plurality a thoroughgoing conservative, Acting Governor Frank F. Merriam. Inevitable result: California's November election will be fought not on party lines but on the issue of economic radicalism and experimentation. That issue definitely jeopardizes the Democrats' chance of carrying...
...will be headed by an ex-Socialist and an ex-Republican, and sheer party loyalty is not likely to weigh heavily in November. Mr. Sinclair's chances of election depend largely on what Senator Johnson may say for him. and what the Democratic machine headed by Senator William G. McAdoo is likely to do for him. Last week Senator McAdoo was thinking things over in Paris...
...teaching staff of coal-mining McAdoo, Pa.'s public schools are 13 positions. When opening day arrived last week 26 teachers were on hand to fill them. Thirteen Republican appointees huddled defiantly inside the high-school building. Thirteen Democratic appointees, who claimed dirty work at the last school board election, hammered and shrilled to be let in. Idle miners trotted up grinning, heaved rocks, bricks, clods, milk bottles. After half an hour twelve Republicans marched out, carrying Colleague No. 13 to the hospital. Officially closed to pupils, McAdoo's high school lay open to every breeze...
...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...
Suing for Divorce. Mrs. Ethel McCormack McAdoo Keith, 39, stepdaughter of the late Isaac Edward Emerson (Bromo-Seltzer), onetime wife of Francis McAdoo, eldest son of Senator William Gibbs McAdoo; from Walter Winchester Keith, Baltimore socialite; in Towson...