Word: scantest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...election. Nevertheless, he left behind him an organization headed by his campaign assistant, State Senator Culbert L. Olson, who remained as Democratic State Central Committee Chairman. Senator McAdoo, who regards California as his political proconsulate, did not choose to honor State Chairman Olson with more than the scantest patronage. When Mr. Olson threatened to organize a delegation to the Democratic National Convention pledged not only to Franklin Roosevelt but to production-for-use, he was hastily invited to Washington. As a compromise President Roosevelt himself agreed to pick the slate of Democratic delegates. When he did so only ten EPIC...