In California, where anything can happen, Orson Welleswho has impersonated William Randolph Hearst, campaigned with Franklin Delano Roosevelt and sawed his wife in halfthought of running for the U.S. Senate.
There were other big-name possibilities for the Democratic ticket. An early effort to get Jimmy Roosevelt to run for Governor failed, but Jimmy would keep his hand in as a member of the Los Angeles County Democratic Central Committee. Colonel Evans Carlson, of raider fame, had an early boom for the Senate, and Democrats were trying to persuade General Joseph Stilwell to run for something. Will Rogers Jr., back from the war...
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