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...cocked his political ear, Bob Kenny of California thought he heard the rumblings of a Wallace-for-President groundswell. The genial co-chairman of the P.C.A. wanted other people to hear it too. So he got a big idea. He would promote a "Democratic" grassroots rally in sunbaked Fresno (traditional midstate meeting ground for California politicians) and start Wallace's name toward a spot on the state's Democratic presidential primary ballot. The rally would be the first formal move in the nation to nominate Wallace. It might even start a third-party tidal wave...
...didn't. Wary Democratic officeholders avoided Fresno last week as though it were a poison-ivy patch. Henry Wallace himself was too cagey to send greetings. Among the 300-odd delegates who did show up, Kenny whipped up enough enthusiasm to start Wallace organizations going in 16 of the state's 23 congressional districts. The organizations would probably collect enough signatures to land a Wallace delegation on the ballot...
Hard on the Fresno rally, Chairman Roosevelt heard other shots-from the right. They came from plump, redheaded Tom Scully, well-to-do Los Angeles Democrat and ex-Democratic state treasurer, whom Jimmy had defeated for the state party chairmanship last year. Scully, an old Pauley disciple, had neither forgotten nor forgiven. For a year, Scully and the Pauley organization had sniped at Jimmy Roosevelt. Last week, Scully announced that he had assumed leadership of a Truman-for-President movement in opposition to the nominal party leadership of Chairman Roosevelt...
Chauffeur Teodoro Pérez was the complainant. During last month's inauguration of President Tomás Berreta, he picked up three U.S. bluejackets from the good-will U.S. naval squadron led by the cruiser Fresno. The sailormen slugged him and robbed...
...weather was just as unseasonable elsewhere in the U.S. As it got warm where it should have been cold, it got cold where it should have been warm. Storm warnings were flown off the California coast. Fresno had an October freeze for the first time since weather records were begun in 1887; at Sacramento the earliest recorded frost damaged tons of olives...