Word: sinclair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Issued this week by the Harrisburg, Pa. Telegraph and Telegraph Press was a book which was to have been Candidate Long's big campaign publication. My First Days in the White House. Modeled after Upton Sinclair's I, Governor of California, but wittier, the book presents an imaginative narrative beginning with Huey Long's election to the Presidency, concludes with his setting up his Cabinet, among whom were: Secretary of the Navy, Franklin Roosevelt; Secretary of Commerce, Herbert Hoover; Secretary of State, William F. Borah; Secretary of War, Smedley D. Butler; Secretary of the Treasury, James Couzens; Attorney General, Frank...
...Like Printing Money!" In Pasadena Novelist Upton Sinclair was pained last week when asked if Social Credit is not about the same as his "End Poverty in California" on which he failed last year to get himself elected Governor (TIME...
...Social Credit fools many people," said onetime Socialist Sinclair with a patient smirk. "Actually it's just like printing money. When you give the people more money to buy more products, as in the Douglas plan, you are simply diluting money...
...politics as in fruit, California boasts the juiciest, the most exotic. Having savored Upton Sinclair's EPIC in 1934, she celebrated 1935 by holding the longest, bitterest, most be-lobbied session of her Legislature in history, a free-for-all that ended last week on the front doorstep of Governor Frank Merriam. Today 22 States have chain store taxes. Into the heated session of the California Legislature, Progressives introduced a chain store tax on a California scale- $1 for one store, $2 for the second, $4 for the third and so on in geometric progression...
Grateful to U. S. oil companies with Mexican interests which customarily pay the bills of its football teams, the University of Mexico made Harry Ford Sinclair an Honorary Alumnus...