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Too crass a character for Herbert Hoover to stomach, he has popularized himself by making the rounds of the State at rodeos and fiestas in a ten-gallon hat (he has covered 720,000 miles by automobile in four years). His play with the oil interests on the tide-line leases he laughs off as no Teapot Dome but a teapot tempest. Culbert Olson, if elected, will be California's first Democratic Governor since James Budd (1894), but Governor Merriam was last week rated a certain loser. If this was strange it was no stranger than another fact: although pensions are the strongest political medicine of the 1938 campaign, in California where pensions are strongest, they no longer are rated as a moonstone of political success.
* "End Poverty In California"—a production-for-use scheme whereby idle industrial plants were to be turned over to idle workers to work for their own salvation.
† For a parallel belief harbored by New Deal Economist David Cushman Coyle see p. 59.