Word: sinclair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were distinguished for nothing else, Adventure would stand apart from rival "pulps" because its Assistant Editor used to be Nobel Prizewinner Sinclair Lewis; because it was once entirely illustrated by Rockwell Kent; because one of its most ardent readers was Roosevelt I; because it was the first national magazine to print the works of Pulitzer Prizewinner Thomas Sigismund Stribling. Last week Adventure celebrated its first quarter-century by publishing a special anniversary issue of 176 pages...
...Weeks of Hornblower & Weeks was Warren Harding's late Secretary of War, John Wingate Weeks. His only son, Sinclair ("Sinkie") Weeks, is president of United-Carr and longtime Republican Mayor of smug Newton, Mass. When not occupied with fasteners, "Sinkie" Weeks bedevils Democratic Governor James M. Curley, whose limousine has twice run down escorting troopers, one of them in "Sinkie's" bailiwick. When Curley denied that he had been personally involved in the Newton crash, "Sinkie" held an investigation, brought forth witnesses who said that they had seen His Excellency in the car. On the side, "Sinkie" Weeks...
...Another salute to the prescient Sinclair Lewis! Arrowsmith, published in 1925, describes Dr. Holabird's iatrocracy about as follows: ". . . would rule, coordinate, standardize and make useful the whole world of intelligence, from trousers-designing to poetry...
...house last week some of his ablest advisers. Among those to pull up chairs in the Presidential study at Hyde Park were Postmaster General Farley, Democratic Pressagent Charles Michelson, Publisher Julius David Stern of Philadelphia, and Charles C. Pettijohn. the cinema lawyer who last year directed California's Stop-Sinclair movement...
...Doubleday, Doran was about to put plates on the press for Sinclair Lewis' forthcoming book, It Can't Happen Here, in which Huey Long was involved in a supposed U. S. dictatorship in 1936. The publishers reached Author Lewis in England, arranged changes by cable...