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...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...
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...