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Your issue of March 8 contains a letter from Upton Sinclair . . . Since I happen to be his first wife, I find his account quite inaccurate, but I am well aware that Mr. Sinclair knows everything and that he is always right . . . The unhappy incidents to which he refers occurred some 43 years ago. I had hoped that in these intervening years he would develop some qualities of compassion and humility...
...spending. Yet the answers from the Administration's statisticians are more confusing than enlightening; their last estimates of unemployment (for January) ranged from 2,359,000 to 3,087,000, a difference of 728,000. Not one knows which figure to believe, and last week Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks was so disturbed that he had a panel of experts checking over the accuracy of the whole statistical system...
...told in Harry Kemp's Tramping on Life: As Kemp was about to move out with Sinclair's first" wife, the aggrieved husband thrust her coffeepot upon him, saying, "You. can take this to your goddess, this poison machine, and lay it on her altar...
...Ever since that first phone call from Salesman Hoffman, Sinclair Weeks has been besieged by a steady stream of telephone calls, letters, telegrams and personal visits from auto salesmen eager to prove to him that salesmanship still flourishes. 'Here's one salesman who is rising from the dead . . .' was the way a California dealer began his telegram. At least two dozen salesmen, like Hoffman, used the telephone technique, and some have phoned several times to follow up their first sales efforts. Long-distance calls have come from such widely scattered points as Lubbock, Texas, Detroit, Minneapolis...
Such aggressive salesmanship, if applied everywhere, should have a stimulating effect on the economy.' "Which car would Weeks buy and when? Reported Bookman: "Like any canny sales prospect, Sinclair Weeks so far has just smiled and kept his own counsel...