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Because the big businessman often has not the time or inclination to digest his newspapers thoroughly, because he likes to believe in a substratum of "inside" information which the Press does not print, because he is more impressed by gossipy chat than by formal information, the "confidential" Washington letter has become a thriving institution. Last week a select list of 800 bankers, lawyers, manufacturers, editors, etc., etc. were receiving free a new kind of "inside stuff" service which may soon be marketed at $5 a year. It is the brain-child of the enterprising editors of Collier's weekly...
...work of Dirac and his peers possible. Last week appeared the newest Jeans book, Through Space and Time,* into which the 57-year-old astronomer and mathematician has packed the fundamental things 1934 Science knows about the Universe. Sir James has made his story so simple that laymen can digest it without difficulty, so authoritative that no scientist will quarrel with his premises...
Aimee Semple McPherson was out for Merriam, picturing Upton Sinclair as "a red devil." Seeress Gene Dennis consulted the stars, predicted that Acting Governor Merriam would win, the election. The Literary Digest poll said the same thing?2½-to-1. The gamblers' money had switched to Merriam at 5-to-1. Almost as hysterical as his opponents, Sinclair charged that "208 experienced gangsters" had been brought from New York to substitute "stuffed" ballot boxes for the official ones...
...that the Republicans would carry California. Senator Hiram Johnson was sure of reelection, but since the New Deal had adopted him as a Democrat that will be an empty triumph for the G. O. P. Republican Acting Governor Frank Merriam, too, had a good chance of reelection. A Literary Digest poll last week showed him leading Upton Sinclair, 2½-to-1. But there, again, such an outcome would be due, not to Republican headwork, but to the jettisoning of Democratic Nominee Sinclair by the Democratic Administration in Washington...
...attack such a moneyed institution as the New Deal. The only substantial basis for hope that Chairman Fletcher has had during his five months labors was the fact that businessmen have gradually found the New Deal distasteful-a fact first reported by observers; then confirmed by a small Literary Digest poll indicating that the New Deal had lost 10% of its supporters since the Digest's big poll in May; and finally verified by Franklin Roosevelt's much advertised turn to the right, his effort to smile business back into good humor...