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...Upton Sinclair's first play in nine years-Giant's Strength-had its 2 ½-hour debut at the hands of a Claremont, Calif. community playhouse. The critics who attended gave it "mixed notices" and confused ones. Some thought it was a sort of cheerful Skin of Our Teeth. Playwright Sinclair, who had stayed away from the rehearsals, stayed away from the opening...
Much of the writing is dated. The gloomy opening scenes of Desire Under the Elms read like a Ring Lardner parody of Russian drama. Sinclair Lewis' The Man Who Knew Coolidge seems a more imaginative creation 20 years after publication; but he also seems as unreal as the specters who haunted the castles of Gothic novelists...
Contempt of Congress is a criminal offense, and is usually punished as such. In 1929 Oilman Harry F. Sinclair was sent to jail for three months* for refusing to answer a Congressional Committee's questions on his company's dealings. In 1935 William P. MacCracken Jr., secretary of the American Bar Association and a former Assistant Secretary of Commerce, was put behind bars for the destruction of subpoenaed papers...
...While still in jail, Sinclair was sentenced to six additional months for contempt of court for hav ing jurors shadowed...
Describing the Republican race for nomination as "one big horse race with most of the odds even," Sinclair Weeks '14, Republican National Committeeman from Massachusetts, last night told 50 people assembled in the Lowell Junior Common Room that General MacArthur's candidacy cannot, however, "be seriously considered...