Word: merriams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What a lovely campaign gift to hand to Candidate-for-Governor Merriam! It sounds almost as if Upton Sinclair had been indicted...
ARTICLE TITLED CALIFORNIA CLIMAX IN TIME, OCT. 22 CONTAINS MISINFORMATION ON GOVERNOR MERRIAM IN CALIFORNIA . . . AND DOES NOT JIBE WITH FACTS GIVEN YOUR REPRESENTATIVE. . . . SEEMS UNDUE ADVANTAGE HAS BEEN TAKEN OF GOVERNOR MERRIAM...
...Governor Merriam Campaign...
...happened, Mr. Fletcher last week had good reason to hope that the Republicans would carry California. Senator Hiram Johnson was sure of reelection, but since the New Deal had adopted him as a Democrat that will be an empty triumph for the G. O. P. Republican Acting Governor Frank Merriam, too, had a good chance of reelection. A Literary Digest poll last week showed him leading Upton Sinclair, 2½-to-1. But there, again, such an outcome would be due, not to Republican headwork, but to the jettisoning of Democratic Nominee Sinclair by the Democratic Administration in Washington...
...nation was given further evidence last week of the intensity of the California gubernatorial campaign between Republican Acting Governor Frank Merriam and EPICandidate Upton Sinclair when California's Secretary of State announced the final registration figure: 3,140,114. Never before had so many Californians made themselves eligible to vote. In Los Angeles County alone, 1,305,527 persons had gone through the Nov. 6 preliminaries...