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...picked Earl Warren, district attorney of Aiameda County and Republican State Chairman. A steering committee of 21, a slate of 44 delegates, were named to promote this "free ticket" of "uninstructed" delegates. Two bumptious persons were given no representation in the movement. One was California's Governor Frank Merriam. The other was Publisher William Randolph Hearst...
Since in California the consent of a candidate is not necessary in order to run a slate of delegates for him, Mr. Hearst took silence for consent, got up a slate for Landon. Three days before the Hearst slate was filed, Governor Merriam, unable to get himself a place of prominence on Mr. Hoover's uninstructed delegation, startled California by announcing himself for Landon. Thus the Merriams and the Hearsts converged from opposite directions, marched on as an army of Landons...
...listened to advisers who told him that if he entered in California he might only split the anti-Hoover vote and run last in a field of three. With Borah out, that left California Republicans a choice next month of marching with the Hoovers or in the Landon-Hearst-Merriam brigade...
Other Crimson swimmers who are making the trip to New Haven are Bob Heskett in the breast stroke, Bernard Merriam in the dive, Dario Berizzi in the 220, Frank Coleman in the 220 and 440, and the relay team of John Colony, Donald, MeKay, John Bainbridge and Hutter...
...time" to run for President himself, graciously endorsed Governor Alfred Mossman Landon of Kansas as the second best choice. Observers, quick to see the hand of Publisher William Randolph Hearst behind the move, thought the probable split in California's Republican ranks would be more than Governor Merriam bargained...