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...called too conservative, too old (74), a former Klansman (untrue). The reason that Oldster McAdoo failed of renomination was-so far as hard-headed politicians could tell - principally one plank in his opponent's platform. Opponent Sheridan Downey, erstwhile No. 2 man in Upton Sinclair's EPIC movement, onetime attorney of Dr. Francis E. ("Plan") Townsend, won the Democratic nomination to the Senate because he made a golden promise...
...from Upton Sinclair's EPIC]. WE ARE NOW CALLING ON YOU TO CONTRIBUTE A DAY'S PAY TO OUR COMMITTEE FOR THE SAME PURPOSE." Their candidate for Governor: Upton Sinclair's 1934 lieutenant, Culbert L. Olson...
Based on an original story by Emerson Hough (The Covered Wagon), rigged out with a full quota of blizzards, prairie fires, stampedes, cowboys, carpetbaggers and Comanche Indians, The Texans contains more than enough action for a grand scale brush country epic. That it fails to emerge...
...Ireland without St. Patrick is unthinkable," declares Gogarty. "Every person in our island shares something of the personality of that steadfast and enduring man. . . ." But this is only Gogarty's briefly stated conclusion. The main content of his tribute to the great Irish epic is an account of his pilgrimage in the legendary footsteps of the Saint. He investigated a half-dozen birthplaces, made a pilgrimage up St. Patrick's mountain in Connemara, flew over Ulster in a plane piloted by his good friend, the Marquess of Londonderry, leafed through all the ancient and modern biographies...
...long step toward abolishing the controversial basing-point system." It lowered Birmingham and Chicago prices to a par with Pittsburgh (TIME, July 4). The price cuts caught the public eye, but in the steel world the removal of the old differentials caused a consternation which last week reached epic proportions. Other companies struggled to get into line. Small independents stormed that they could...