Word: slates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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's appeared on the list of 48 delegates (with 44 votes) along with six Townsendites and 20 New Dealers...
Taking advantage of disgruntled feelings among the EPIC's, Upton Sinclair, who announced several months ago that he was going to write a book instead of campaigning in 1936, changed his mind and whipped together a slate of EPIC delegates nominally committed to making that onetime Socialist the Democratic nominee for President. Actually, however, Mr. Sinclair stressed that he will support Roosevelt at the Democratic convention, aims only to have EPIC well represented for platform-making purposes. Unfortunately for the Sinclairs, however, State Chairman Olson, EPIC's strongest practical politician, is personally at odds with Upton Sinclair...
...Angeles Times. That gave the ex-President one Old Guard paper in each of California's three metropolitan areas. Several months ago the Hoover plans were well afoot: to name an uninstructed Conservative-controlled delegation to the Republican convention at Cleveland. As nominal head of this slate they 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...
...Governor Landon, Mr. Hearst was interested in how much sympathy there was for Landon in this uninstructed delegation. George Gilray Young, general manager of Hearst's Los Angeles Examiner, quietly mailed a questionnaire, "Who is your favorite choice for Presidential candidate?" to the 44 members of the uninstructed slate and the 21 members of the steering committee. Mistaking the questionnaire for a general straw vote, all but one of the 65 replied. The score: Hoover, 47; Landon...
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...