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...fact-finding committee gave Goodie the nod, Christopher unleashed his pistols, accused Knight supporters of circulating literature of "such a low grade" as to be "vulgar and wholly un-American." It was, he said, a case of "bigotry" and "insipid intolerance." The literature included a pamphlet entitled "The ODDyssey of George Christopher," and somehow Christopher took it to be a slur on his Greek ancestry. What it did do was trace Christopher's switches in party registration-from Republican to Progressive to Democratic to Republican-since 1930. Said Christopher, whom the pamphlet labeled "Weathervane George": Goodie Knight directly approved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: The Californians | 3/24/1958 | See Source »

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