Word: sinclair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Swifter than Pele in reacting to Roosevelt charm was ex-Socialist Upton Sinclair, now Democratic nominee for Governor of California. On the night before a visit to Hyde Park Mr. Sinclair, by his own ad- mission, was nervous and slept badly. At 5 o'clock the next afternoon he entered the President's study at Hyde Park for an hour's conference. It was two hours before he emerged. He stripped off his coat, sat down with newshawks and began to burble: "I had the most interesting two hours' talk I ever had in my life...
...Franklin Roosevelt's discomfiture, Nominee Sinclair, in a dither of haste to get into the spotlight, wired him asking for an interview as soon as possible. There is plenty of precedent for a President keeping on the fence in a pre-primary campaign, but for him to deny his countenance to an actual nominee of his own party is almost unprecedented. Yet to shake Upton Sinclair's hand in welcome at Hyde Park would have tended to confirm Senator Hastings' inference. With the best grace
Last week the managing director of the world's largest crude producer was bluntly answered by a U. S. oilman just back from Sir Henri's home territory. Rapped out Harry Ford Sinclair of Consolidated Oil: "What about Europe putting its own house in order? In one country I visited they were selling gas at ... less than it costs to produce. And if you want to know the country, it was Holland...
...week's visit to Manhattan, Sir Henri had calmly announced that railroad electrification was already obsolete, that the Diesel engine was the locomotive of the future. On that score, too, Mr. Sinclair had a ready answer: "What's the difference whether you drink Scotch or bourbon"?a reference to the fact that U. S. railroads already burn some 2,000,000,000 gal. of fuel oil per year...
While Mr. Sinclair was stepping ashore in Manhattan, the rest of U. S. oildom was assembled in the rain at Titusville, Pa., celebrating the 75th anniversary of the drilling of the first oil well by the late Col. Edwin I. Drake. The celebration was no love feast. While Secretary of the Interior Ickes and Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania smiled on the speakers' platform, Axtell J. Byles of the American Petroleum Institute keynoted: "Upon the rock of rugged individualism this nation was founded...