Word: merriams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME is inaccurate, as well as instrumental in aiding malicious belittlers, when it refers to California's Governor as Acting Governor Merriam. Merriam is Governor in the full, complete, and accurate sense of the word. He is no more Acting Governor during this interim prior to his actual election to the gubernatorial chair than President Coolidge was Acting President subsequent to President Harding's death and prior to his actual election in 1924. Since a Lieutenant-Governor's becoming Governor upon the death of his chief is exactly analogous to a Vice President's becoming President...
...Reader Gilbert refer to the opinion of his own State's Attorney General Ulysses Sigel Webb who, when asked by Mr. Merriam's executive secretary how to sign official papers, held that Mr. Merriam technically was Acting Governor from the moment of Governor Rolph's death to the end of his term. However, the law does not prescribe the form of signature...
...McAdoo machine, by a 3-to-2 plurality. The greatest Sinclair strength was developed in and around Los Angeles, home of Aimee Semple McPherson, Cecil B. DeMille and Utopia, Inc. At the same time the Republicans nominated by an even heavier plurality a thoroughgoing conservative, Acting Governor Frank F. Merriam. Inevitable result: California's November election will be fought not on party lines but on the issue of economic radicalism and experimentation. That issue definitely jeopardizes the Democrats' chance of carrying the State, for if those Democrats who voted for Creel decide that they love the Democratic Party less than...
...race for governorship nominations. Many were the candidates. On the Republican side, Acting Governor Merriam, Lawyer Raymond LeRoy Haight and former Governor Clement Calhoun Young were among those asking voters to listen to their eloquence. On the Democratic side George Creel, Wartime Chief of Propaganda, backed by William Gibbs McAdoo; Justus Wardell, oldtime politician, and a handful of others all called to Californians to heed them. But the man whom Californians heeded?favorably and unfavorably?had no machine backing, was no politician and broke all the rules of politics. He was journalist, pamphleteer, reformer, and his name was Upton Sinclair...
...will or should it knuckle down? San Francisco Labor chose its course, to make the public and back of the public the State and back of the State the employers bow to its power. When the State in the person of Mayor Rossi in San Francisco, of Governor Merriam in Sacramento and, remote in the Pacific, of President Roosevelt, took up the challenge, the stage was set for social...