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...University of Chicago professors lifted their eyes from current strife for a glimpse at the future. "Planning in a democracy," declared venerable Political Scientist Charles Edward Merriam, "is a co-operative enterprise, requiring widespread sympathy and support, beyond party and beyond region. Business can block it; labor, agriculture, the middle class, can block it. But the danger then is that we drift away from planning, not into a blissful heaven of politics and economics, to live forever with golden harps, but to a point where force mounts the throne and writes a plan in blood and steel...
Dive--Harvard: Bernard F. Merriam, ll '36, Henry K. Fitts '36; Alumni; Thecdore McK. Belcher...
...Reader Soule see p. 761 of the 3,350-page, 17 lb. 10 oz., New Merriam Webster for "dizzard: a jester, a fool, a blockhead...
...Sproul the Administrator well knew that California's Legislature, about to meet in its biennial appropriations session, already felt none too friendly toward the University. At Berkeley he suppressed the troublemaking Social Problems Club, forbade student activity in the Merriam-Sinclair campaign. He was touring the State with soothing assurances of University loyalty when a bald, mild, solemn subordinate in Los Angeles set off last fortnight's fireworks...
Aimee Semple McPherson was out for Merriam, picturing Upton Sinclair as "a red devil." Seeress Gene Dennis consulted the stars, predicted that Acting Governor Merriam would win, the election. The Literary Digest poll said the same thing?2½-to-1. The gamblers' money had switched to Merriam at 5-to-1. Almost as hysterical as his opponents, Sinclair charged that "208 experienced gangsters" had been brought from New York to substitute "stuffed" ballot boxes for the official ones...