Word: merriams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...Senator McAdoo at Phoenix, Ariz, in which he ambiguously declared: "I am supporting the Democratic party in California as I am supporting the Demo-cratic party in Arizona and the Demo-cratic party in America." Senator McAdoo's law partner, William H. Neblett, was voting for Republican Nominee Frank Merriam because "Sinclair's program is nothing more than a contest of the unemployed against the employed...
Impressionable Los Angeles was the scene of the most ruthless anti-Sinclair activity. Under what was said to be the guiding hand of Republican State Chairman Louis B. Mayer (MGM), the cinema industry was turning out Stop-Sinclair "news-reels," had even assessed many of its stars for Merriam campaign funds. A united front against Sinclairism was effected by the three big Los Angeles papers, which simply quit reporting news of EPIC and its sponsor. A flood of news-photographs was released locally and to the nation to prove that EPIC was luring an army of bums to California. Their...
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...