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Often accurate in a national race for the White House, they could be more easily manipulated in a state race, and now Upton Sinclair's supporters were claiming that Frank Merriam's GOP bag men were buying up ballots on the street for 25 cents each.

Greg Mitchell: Dispatches From 1934 Campaign: Irving Thalberg's 'Attack Ad' vs. Upton Sinclair Greg Mitchell 2010

Often accurate in a national race for the White House, they could be more easily manipulated in a state race, and now Upton Sinclair's supporters were claiming that Frank Merriam's GOP bag men were buying up ballots on the street for 25 cents each.

Greg Mitchell: Dispatches From 1934 Campaign: Irving Thalberg's 'Attack Ad' vs. Upton Sinclair Greg Mitchell 2010

Often accurate in a national race for the White House, they could be more easily manipulated in a state race, and now Upton Sinclair's supporters were claiming that Frank Merriam's GOP bag men were buying up ballots on the street for 25 cents each.

Greg Mitchell: Dispatches From 1934 Campaign: Irving Thalberg's 'Attack Ad' vs. Upton Sinclair Greg Mitchell 2010

In this morning's column for the Hearst papers, he revealed that he had been chatting with "intimates" of Sinclair's who privately advised that the EPIC candidate was a "communist at heart" who "admires the way things are done in Russia because he proclaims that the Soviets copied their ideas from him."

Greg Mitchell: Dispatches From 1934 Campaign: Irving Thalberg's 'Attack Ad' vs. Upton Sinclair Greg Mitchell 2010

Often accurate in a national race for the White House, they could be more easily manipulated in a state race, and now Upton Sinclair's supporters were claiming that Frank Merriam's GOP bag men were buying up ballots on the street for 25 cents each.

Greg Mitchell: Dispatches From 1934 Campaign: Irving Thalberg's 'Attack Ad' vs. Upton Sinclair Greg Mitchell 2010

Reports that actress Jean Harlow was fighting her studio's demand that she donate to Sinclair's opponent proved premature but now word circulated that another rising young actress, Katharine Hepburn, was holding out.

Greg Mitchell: Dispatches From Incredible 1934 Campaign: Hollywood Hits, FDR Ignores, Upton Sinclair Greg Mitchell 2010

Reports that actress Jean Harlow was fighting her studio's demand that she donate to Sinclair's opponent proved premature but now word circulated that another rising young actress, Katharine Hepburn, was holding out.

Greg Mitchell: Dispatches From Incredible 1934 Campaign: Hollywood Hits, FDR Ignores, Upton Sinclair Greg Mitchell 2010

On the book-related front, I've been catching up on Rachel Caine's excellent Weather Warden series, enjoying Linnea Sinclair's romantic military sf (the Dock Five series, including Hope's Folly), and reading more than a few YA adventures, from science fiction (Pete Hautman's Hole in the Sky) to Victorian fantasy (Libba Bray's A Great and Terrible Beauty).

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Reports that actress Jean Harlow was fighting her studio's demand that she donate to Sinclair's opponent proved premature but now word circulated that another rising young actress, Katharine Hepburn, was holding out.

Greg Mitchell: Dispatches From Incredible 1934 Campaign: Hollywood Hits, FDR Ignores, Upton Sinclair Greg Mitchell 2010

Often accurate in a national race for the White House, they could be more easily manipulated in a state race, and now Upton Sinclair's supporters were claiming that Frank Merriam's GOP bag men were buying up ballots on the street for 25 cents each.

Greg Mitchell: Dispatches From 1934 Campaign: Irving Thalberg's 'Attack Ad' vs. Upton Sinclair Greg Mitchell 2010