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...late 1920's California citizens began to clamor for large-scale, low-cost medical care. Last November, when liberal Democrat Culbert Levy Olson was elected Governor, he promised to sponsor a State system of compulsory health insurance. This threat of "government interference" spurred the California Medical Association, which for over ten years had been hatching health-insurance schemes, to announce a counterplan...
These tactics worked admirably. Last week two Republican Senators sponsored Mr. Campbell's bill, all but seven Senate Republicans voted for it. So did all but two Democrats, after talking it over with Governor Culbert Olson. Happy Mr. Campbell counted on favorable action by the Assembly, Governor Olson and the U. S. lenders without whom the plan cannot work. If all cooperate, Cooperator Campbell's first community for balanced farmers, carpenters, barbers, etc. will rise at Bellflower, about 20 miles south of Los Angeles...
...graduate of Wesleyan University at Middletown, Connecticut, Olson studied at Yale in 1932-33 as an Olin Fellow in English. In 1933-34 he worked on his Melville project, one chapter of which, "Lear and Moby Dick," has been published. After two years on the faculty of Clark University in Worcester, he came to Harvard as a staff member and graduate student...
...these charges Robert Odell had last week made no direct answer. Instead he brought a spectacular counterattack. He claimed that Commissioner Evans is a political minion of Governor Olson and that they are ganging up on him because he did not contribute enough to their 1938 campaign fund. He based this in part upon the appointment of Norman Church as Pacific States' custodian...
...faced Millionaire Church sold bicycles in Toledo, automobiles in Los Angeles, made enough to buy the finest breeding stable in California and to be one of Culbert Olson's chief backers. Last week Odell screamed that during the election campaign Church asked him for $5,000 on the promise that an attack on Pacific States would be left out of a recorded Olson speech. Custodian Church denied asking for the $5,000, but admitted receiving $2,500, admitted too that mention of Pacific States had been removed from the phonograph record. Governor Olson snapped that he, for one, knew...