Word: sinclair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only one prominent Democrat, Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins, who is himself applying some of Nominee Sinclair's economic principles (see p. 10), expressed joy. Said Mr. Hopkins: "What do I think about Sinclair's nomination? I think it's great stuff. Sure I'm for him. He's on our side. A Socialist? Of course not! He's a Democrat. A good Democrat...
With his radical EPIC program (TIME, Sept. 3), Upton Sinclair defeated George Creel, a liberal Democrat backed by the McAdoo machine, by a 3-to-2 plurality. The greatest Sinclair strength was developed in and around Los Angeles, home of Aimee Semple McPherson, Cecil B. DeMille and Utopia, Inc. At the same time the Republicans nominated by an even heavier plurality a thoroughgoing conservative, Acting Governor Frank F. Merriam. Inevitable result: California's November election will be fought not on party lines but on the issue of economic radicalism and experimentation. That issue definitely jeopardizes the Democrats' chance of carrying...
...also nominated Hiram Johnson for Senator?and, incidentally, gave him more primary votes than did the Republicans who also nominated him. Thus the Democratic ticket will be headed by an ex-Socialist and an ex-Republican, and sheer party loyalty is not likely to weigh heavily in November. Mr. Sinclair's chances of election depend largely on what Senator Johnson may say for him. and what the Democratic machine headed by Senator William G. McAdoo is likely to do for him. Last week Senator McAdoo was thinking things over in Paris...
...Said Hamilton Cotton, who ran George Creel's campaign: "I sorrowfully concede the rape of the Democratic Party in California by Upton Sinclair...
...Sinclair victory threatened to drive California moderates as well as conservatives to vote the Republican ticket in November. If such a mass movement should develop, it might sweep many a luckless Democratic Representative out of his seat and return to the House a batch of Republicans who would do the prestige of the Roosevelt Administration no national good whatever. Both Boss Farley and President Roosevelt were anxiously aware of these possibilities when Republican Senator Hastings of Delaware said the thing they did not want said: "Upton Sinclair is a Socialist running on a Socialist platform heartily endorsing the New Deal...