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...with loans of $77,600,000, represented President Roosevelt. Chief Engineer Charles Henry Purcell paid tribute to his staff. A steel-helmeted worker paid tribute to the daily average of 6,500 men employed in the construction. Then, wielding a dirty acetylene torch, California's Governor Frank Finley Merriam severed a gold link in a silver chain across the bridge entrance. Said he profoundly: "This bridge is not the product...
Issuing a challenge to Nominee Roosevelt to confirm or deny his son James's intimation last fortnight that he intended to revive NRA, Nominee Landon rolled on to California. Detraining at Pasadena with Governor Frank Merriam, who had boarded his train earlier, he was met by a cheering crowd, bundled into an automobile to ride to Los Angeles. Shocking was his reception by that pro-Roosevelt city. On the outskirts a group of WPA workers leaned on their shovels, booed lustily as he passed. As his car continued down crowded Broadway the boos swelled into a great, derisive roar...
...aside from himself only eight of the 48 Governors can come to the aid of the Republican Party in the 1936 Presidential campaign. Governor Bridges of New Hampshire and Governor Smith of Vermont are satisfied that their States are already in the Republican bag. On the other hand, Governor Merriam of California, Governor Nice of Maryland and Governor Welford of North Dakota would probably privately concede that their States are in Franklin Roosevelt's bag. Of the three other Republican Governors, Buck has done little to win Delaware's three electoral votes, Hoffman is probably more...
Most ominous accusation came from Senator William Gibbs McAdoo's law partner, Colonel William Haynie Neblett, a policyholder. He charged that directors of old Pacific Mutual had dictated Governor Frank Finley Merriam's appointment of Commissioner Carpenter for the specific purpose of handling the reorganization, that the reorganization was part of a conspiracy by officers of old Pacific Mutual now in the new company to get control of Pacific Mutual assets...
...William Randolph Hearst, a New York Democrat, to become master of California Republicanism? When California Republicans marched to the polls last week and said "no" by 344,000 votes to 256,000, that verdict was almost universally interpreted as a thoroughgoing rebuff to William Randolph Hearst and Frank F. Merriam...