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Sinclair lost another potent vote when Senator McAdoo's law partner, William H. Neblett (see p. 15), announced his switch to Merriam...
...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...
Before Immediate Epic was promulgated, William Gibbs McAdoo tried to soothe his fellow Californians' rising hysteria from the vantage point of distant Washington. Said he: "This 'wolf scare' doesn't frighten me at all." But California property owners were now thoroughly alarmed. As capital continued to emigrate, bums, panhandlers, tramps and just plain jobless continued to immigrate across the State borders. All over the State Motor Vehicle Department clerks reported an influx of travelers with suitcases or blanket rolls who said they heard there was going to be "plenty of work in California" for unemployed...
...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...