Word: sinclair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said Sir Archibald Sinclair, leader of the Liberal Opposition: "We have not only given the Sudetenland to the Reich! We have restored Germany to Hitler and Italy to Mussolini...
...60th birthday, Upton Sinclair published his 60th book (Little Steel), wryly declared: "If I were asked to name the one definite thing I have accomplished in my public career I believe it would be that I got an exercise courtyard in the State prison* of Delaware...
...Allan Sinclair Hawthorne, Somerville, Massachusetts--Somerville High School...
...campaign Mr. McAdoo was called too conservative, too old (74), a former Klansman (untrue). The reason that Oldster McAdoo failed of renomination was-so far as hard-headed politicians could tell - principally one plank in his opponent's platform. Opponent Sheridan Downey, erstwhile No. 2 man in Upton Sinclair's EPIC movement, onetime attorney of Dr. Francis E. ("Plan") Townsend, won the Democratic nomination to the Senate because he made a golden promise...
...middle-aged observation on contemporary youth, Bricks Without Straw belongs in a category with Sinclair Lewis' The Prodigal Parents, Howard Spring's My Son, My Son! Compared with the jaundiced eyes of Lewis or the rheumy ones of Howard Spring, Author Norris' eyes seem cool-sighted. His calm view comes partly of his studied concern always to see both sides of Problems: partly, it may be due to the fact that the Norrises have brought up several nephews and nieces, kept open house for a dozen others who swarm uninhibited over the Norris ranch at the foot...