Word: sinclair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When, in March 1936, the conservative New York Herald Tribune hired Miss Thompson to write a thrice-weekly column, she was known as: 1) an unusually alert foreign correspondent with vaguely radical leanings; 2) the wife of Nobel Prizewinner Sinclair Lewis. Guided by her most passionate emotion-a consuming hatred of Hitler-Columnist Thompson began writing with shrill assurance that startled readers. As insistent as a katydid, never at a loss for an answer, almost invariably incensed about something, her column has pleased a national appetite for being scolded. Today, her On the Record is printed in 155 newspapers with...
...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...
...forthcoming race for Cuba's oil: Atlantic Refining's subsidiary, with slightly under 740,000 acres in all provinces except Oriente; Cia Petrolera La Estrella de Cuba, subsidiary of Royal Dutch Co., with 44,460 acres in Havana and Matanzas provinces; Union Oil of Cuba, and Sinclair Cuba Oil Co. with increasing acreage spotted throughout the island. If any of these companies strike deep production- long suspected in Cuba's lower Cretaceous (Chalk) region-it may set off a boom as loud as the sugar spree, or as wild as the first days of the East Texas...
...would have to stand trial. Prodded by a three-month-old act of Cuban Strongman Batista's docile legislature, a subsidiary of the Atlantic Refining Co. spurred its crews of U. S. geologists and drillers engaged in a thorough investigation of vast concessions. Close on their heels were Sinclair Cuba Oil Co. and Royal Dutch Co. operatives...
Four years ago dapper, dynamic Don Francisco, West Coast advertising man, organized the campaign that kept Upton Sinclair from becoming Governor of California. Two years later he planned the fight that licked California's chain-store tax. Besides these two feats, able Adman Francisco, head of Lord & Thomas' San Francisco office for 17 years, has built up such lucrative accounts as California Fruit Growers Exchange (Sunkist), The All-Year Club of Southern California and Californians, Inc. (tourists). He has also advertised Southern Pacific Co., the Dollar Steamship Lines, Union Oil Co. of California...