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...Golden State. What had happened since those hectic days last autumn when fey-eyed Gubernatorial Candidate Sinclair had half the people in his State, and not a few outside, scared to death of his political Utopia (TIME, Oct. 22)? More specifically, what had happened to Republican Frank Finley Merriam, the champion who defeated...
Last week cries of the same distressed timbre were howling around the head of victorious Governor Merriam. The army of itinerant jobless from other states, first attracted to California by EPIC's glittering promises, had mounted to 75,000. Agitator Harry Bridges, the tough little Australian who promoted the San Francisco general walkout, was busy agitating longshoremen's strikes. Closer to home, Opposition legislators were bent on starting a move to have Governor Merriam recalled as soon as the six months' legal period of grace had elapsed following his inauguration. But the biggest headache...
...Frank Merriam is a moon-faced lowan who crept into Sacramento as Lieutenant Governor in 1930, succeeded to the Governorship when "Sunny Jim" Rolph died last year and black-jacked California's influential Republicans into nominating him against Sinclair by threatening to withhold State troops from the San Francisco strike last summer. He is an arch political trimmer, paying harmless lip service to the Townsend Plan and at the same time complaining to his capitalist supporters that he is surrounded by fanatics. But even Frank Merriam could not trim the fact that California desperately needed revenue...
...color guard of R. O. T. C. students started up the slope toward the Greek Theater. As the honor guests swung in behind, a golden concrete "C," high above on a hillside, glistened in the sun. President Sproul led the way with Governor Frank Finley Merriam, ex-officio chairman of the Board of Regents. Be hind, with her speech in a Department of Labor "penalty" envelope, trudged Secretary Perkins, escorted by California's best-loved professor, Vice President and Provost Monroe Emanuel Deutsch. Behind them, Citizen Hoover and General David Prescott Barrows, the university's onetime president...
...Eastern Intercollegiate Championships today and tomorrow at C. C. N. Y. in New York, has not completed the list of her entrants. Captain Roy Wallace and Vic Leventritt, who are competing this weekend, will undoubtedly take part. The other men in New York are Dick Fisher, Bernard Merriam, Gregory Jameson, and John Colony...