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...group will cite her woman-hood and acting excellence," and will use the opportunity to give a sneak preview of this year's Pudding show, William Had the Werdel...
...presidential-preference vote and California's 70 delegates, but he did not win handily; a slate with nothing to offer except opposition to Warren got more than half a million votes. The anti-Warren slate's in-name-only candidate for President was Representative Thomas H. Werdel of Bakersfield. His chief cry: Warren is not really a candidate for President, but wants to deal for a place in a national Republican administration...
...Years of Enemies. The political enemies that Warren had made in nearly ten years as governor-Republicans who don't like his bipartisanship, doctors who dislike his compulsory state health insurance proposals, oilmen who oppose his state gasoline tax-lined up behind Werdel who had lots of money to spend on the campaign. California observers who understand what Warren was up against consider that he did well to poll 997,609 votes against Werdel's 509,205. But outside the state, what will register is the size of the vote against Warren...
Inevitably, the Warren-Werdel contest was compared with the startling performance of Warren's political protege, 43-year-old Senator William Knowland. In the Republican senatorial primary, Knowland rolled up a total of 1,499,290 votes to 185,827 for two opponents. Under California's weird cross-filing system, Knowland also won the Democratic primary, is thus fully assured of re-election in November. Knowland's total vote, 2,450,435, was more than any other political candidate ever got in California primaries...
...Leaners. While the primary thus changed the focus on Warren and Knowland, it only fuzzed the picture on the route California's 70 delegates will follow after Warren releases them. Warren," partly in answer to Werdel's deal charge, has insisted that he will not attempt to swing the delegates one way or another if he no longer has a chance to be nominated. But Warren is known to favor...