National Affairs: Merriam Merger

California's egg-headed Governor Frank Finley Merriam has done his best to deserve Columnist Westbrook Pegler's description of him as "a statesman who can be relied on to condemn the housefly and the common cold . . . never straddling the proposition that right is right and wrong is wrong." In 21 months of Republican incumbency, he has flirted with Dr. Francis E. ("$200-a-month") Townsend's plan, been for and against the New Deal, interested in the Mooney case but not interested enough to do anything about it.

Month ago he called Franklin Roosevelt a heaven-sent gift to the U. S. people. Last week...

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