Word: olson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plumping for collective ownership as the answer to California's farm problems (TIME, April 1, 1940). An organizer of The John Steinbeck Committee (bitter enemy of California's Associated Farmers), McWilliams was appointed (1939) California Commissioner of Immigration and Housing by newly elected Governor Culbert L. Olson. He held the post for four years, campaigned vigorously against Republican Nominee for Governor Earl Warren. When Warren, strongly supported by the Associated Farmers, took office as Governor last January, he called in the press, announced that his first official act would be the dismissal of Commissioner McWilliams. Result: McWilliams...
Myere, Munroe, and Olson...
...Eliot will head the British Division in the London Bureau of OWL But the list of defeated, deserving Democrats is much longer than three; and the ambitions of some of the candidates are not as restrained as Senator Brown's. California's bumbling Governor Culbert Levy Olson blithely told friends in Washington last week his eyes were lifted toward the Supreme Court vacancy...
...Olson and Warren tangled in one hot debate; both claimed they won. Californians preferred energetic Earl Warren to fumbling, wrangling Culbert Olson, whose administration had never come to grips with the State's urgent problems...
Democrats held eleven House seats, Republicans tied them by gaining two (one is still to be decided by absentee ballots). The Olson defeat left able, chunky Robert Walker Kenny, 41, prosperous Los Angeles lawyer, national president of the Lawyers Guild, as the top Democrat in the State. Popular Bob Kenny, only Democrat elected to an important State office, succeeds Earl Warren as Attorney General. Democrats look to him to lead their Party's resurgence...