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...Sinclair Weeks '14, member of the Board of Overseers, was named secretary of commerce in Eisenhower's cabinet yesterday. Martin B. Durkin of Chicago as secretary of labor and Walter Williams of Seattle as undersecretary of commerce complete his cabinet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ike Names Overseer Weeks U.S. Secretary of Commerce | 12/2/1952 | See Source »

Former News Editor and Radcliffe Bureau Chief The CRIMSON, John Sack refuses to take this book seriously, steadfastly muttering that "it is a startling revelation of conditions within the meat industry . . . Second only to Upton Sinclair's 'The Jungle. He is selling himself short. Sack's Butcher is a mountain, a treacherous Andean mountain given to icefalls and rotten ledges of snow. He tells how a pair of students--members of a Katzenjammer Kids mountaineering expedition from Harvard and Stanford--climbed that mountain in the summer of 1950 and very nearly lost their lives in the process...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 9/22/1952 | See Source »

Sullivan forsook the law in 1904 when, outraged at the quackeries of patent medicines, he wrote a Collier's article that helped create a national furore, and along with a mighty push from Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, forced Congress to pass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Exit an Old Roman | 8/25/1952 | See Source »

...Sinclair Weeks, treasurer of the Republican National Committee and one of the party's leading lights in Massachusetts, took sides ringingly: "I ... urge ... my good friend, Bob Taft, to perform a supreme act of self-denial which will electrify the nation, instantly unite the party and guarantee victory, by coming out for Eisenhower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: Who's for Whom | 6/30/1952 | See Source »

...widower), the new ambassador brought along his 20-year-old daughter Tomiko, a shy, pretty girl who speaks little English, prefers Western dress. Tomiko is due for some surprises: she prepared herself for her trip to the U.S. by plowing determinedly through works of Faulkner, Dos Passos, Hemingway and Sinclair Lewis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Big Talker | 6/16/1952 | See Source »

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