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...managed the (unsuccessful) reform campaigns of John M. Harlan (1905) and Charles E. Merriam (1911) for Mayor. More successful in local politics was his first wife, Anna Wilmarth Ickes, who cut a figure in the Legislature...
...California's bumblingly conservative Governor Merriam is, curiously, the only State office candidate officially endorsed by T. N. R. P. Reason: he has done homage to the Plan in his desperate fight against Democrat Culbert Olson and "Thirty Dollars Every Thursday...
...real surprise came during a mass interview in the Ambassador Hotel, where Douglas Corrigan was assigned a double suite with no less a roomie than Governor Frank F. Merriam. While Governor Merriam took phone calls ("Mr. Corrigan's suite. Mr. Merriam speaking. . . ."), Douglas Corrigan admonished woolgathering reporters to listen more sharply and hold their tongues, refused to repeat answers to questions. When the ticklish interview was over, Reporter Agness Underwood of the Herald & Express ducked into Corrigan's half of the suite to telephone her story in time for her paper's next edition...
...tongue as of hair, Mr. Olson first showed his political potency in 1934 when, as nominee for State Senator, he carried Los Angeles County by 400,000 votes while the rest of the Democratic ticket lost the county by 52,000 votes. His favorite charge is that Governor Merriam, last week renominated by Republicans, is tied up with the State's big oil companies. He demands that the State take control of oil lands, especially those lying off shore beneath the sea, which are now being tapped by private interests...
...Motion Picture Democratic Committee (Dashiell Hammett, Paul Muni, Miriam Hopkins, Fredric March, Melvyn Douglas, Donald Ogden Stewart et al.) telegraphed to Republican Governor Frank Merriam: "FOUR YEARS AGO WE . . . HAD TO CONTRIBUTE A DAY'S PAY TO YOUR CAMPAIGN FUND TO SAVE CALIFORNIA