Word: culbert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...legged Frank Scully, who wrote Fun in Bed after 20 operations and many years in hospitals, ran for California's State Assembly in 1938 on the slogan, "Out of the Gully with Candidate Scully." Though defeated, he got as reward for supporting Governor Culbert Olson the job of administrative assistant and secretary in the Department of Institutions. His boss was Director Aaron Rosanoff, well-known psychiatrist...
Warren K. Billings (of Mooney & Billings), whose life sentence for the San Francisco Preparedness Day bombing was commuted fortnight ago by Governor Culbert L. Olson, last week tried to get married to Josephine Rudolph, a WPA timekeeper. Then he discovered that, unless his civil rights are restored by a full pardon, marriage is something he cannot enjoy...
Last month, noting the fact that he had served longer than anyone else in California for such an offense, the parole board paroled him. But public protest induced Governor Culbert Olson to ask the board to rescind the action...
...Voted down Culbert Olson's cherished compulsory health-insurance-for-all (TIME...
...administrative fields where the Legislature could not hamstring him, Culbert Olson did what he promised, started a cleanup of workmen's compensation administration, building & loan scandals, other dung-heaps in the backyard which he had inherited from old Frank Merriam. To the $30-Every-Thursday Ham-&-Eggers who helped install him, he promised a special election to give their pension plan a chance this fall, talked of tacking to it a proposal to recall the legislators who wrecked his program. Culbert Olson hoped to be to California what he thinks...