Word: merriam
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...fruit, California boasts the juiciest, the most exotic. Having savored Upton Sinclair's EPIC in 1934, she celebrated 1935 by holding the longest, bitterest, most be-lobbied session of her Legislature in history, a free-for-all that ended last week on the front doorstep of Governor Frank Merriam. Today 22 States have chain store taxes. Into the heated session of the California Legislature, Progressives introduced a chain store tax on a California scale- $1 for one store, $2 for the second, $4 for the third and so on in geometric progression up to $500 on the tenth...
...Metallurgy and Metallography, who is known as a pioneer in that field and who is retiring from the Faculty this year; William Allan Neilson, President of Smith College; George Sarton, authority on the history of science; Thomas Mann, author of "Magic Mountain" and "Joseph and His Brothers"; John Campbell Merriam, President of the Carnegie Institution...
JOHN CAMPBELL MERRIAM: A distinguished scientist whose wise administration of the Carnegie Institution has advanced knowledge on many fronts...
...increment jack up the rate in some brackets as high as the Federal tax. The "radical" Assembly, where a small bloc of EPIC legislators controls the Democratic minority, passed the tax bill recently, 70-to-5. Even though a safely conservative Senate was expected to modify the measure, Governor Merriam has come in for a prodigious amount of kicking around by the Hearst Press (whose master at San Simeon would be caught squarely by the tax), industrialists and rich folk in general. Screamed the Hearst San Francisco Examiner last week: "Extortionate and confiscatory taxation will mean . . . devastation of business, paralysis...
...Argonaut simultaneously performed a miraculous journalistic somersault. The paper which had hailed Governor Merriam last autumn as "a symbol of strength, progress and stability of traditional growth" now declared: "Would Upton Sinclair have done worse in the gubernatorial chair than the man who defeated him? It may well be doubted. He might even have done better, for he has an atom or two of genius in his composition while all one can discern in Merriam is cobwebs from an empty skull. Heaven help us before we perish from the folly of having chosen such a man as Governor...