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Bespectacled Researcher Green, said to have been the inspiration for Sinclair Lewis' Arrowsmith, works late in his basement laboratory with Dr. Bittner. The virus has been named the "Bittner Virus," in recognition of his discovery of the milk factor...
...Sheldon Clark, chairman of the executive committee of the Sinclair Oil Corp.; Justin Miller, president of the National Association of Broadcasters; Clarence Francis, board chairman of the General Foods Corp.; George Gallup of Young & Rubicam; Henry R. Luce, TIME Inc.; James W. Young of J. Walter Thompson Co.; Dr. William I. Myers of Cornell University; Chester C. Davis of the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank; Eugene Meyer, publisher of the Washington Post; Anna Lord Strauss, president of the League of Women Voters; Mrs. La Fell Dickinson, president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs; Eric Johnston, president...
WASTELAND - Jo Sinclair - Harper...
...charged - but never proved in court - that Bonfils took $250,000 from Oilman Harry F. Sinclair to keep quiet about the Teapot Dome scandal, but such hush money would have been mere pin money to him. Before he died in 1933 (nine years after Tammen's death), he boasted that his enterprises, which ranged from mining schemes to a burlesque house, had brought him $60 million...
...more clinically than U.S. literature. World War I had been preceded and followed by unprecedented bursts of U.S. writing. The American Renaissance, as it was bravely called, was studded with innovators like Theodore Dreiser, Edgar Lee Masters, Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, Amy Lowell, Sherwood Anderson, Vachel Lindsay, Sinclair Lewis, and with solidly good writers like Willa Gather and Ellen Glasgow. Their books were often fiercely critical of U.S. mores and motives. But they spoke to a whole nation, and in their writing itself there was a sense of national achievement. By the '305 the bang and sparkle...