Word: sinclairism
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...Director (see below). ¶ Asked Congress to abolish the three-man Surplus Property Board, put the job under one man (presumably Businessman William Stuart Symington III of St. Louis, his appointed chairman). ¶ Ordered the Petroleum Administration to take over and operate the strike-threatened (C.I.O.) butadiene plant of Sinclair Rubber Inc. at Houston. ¶Asked "any patriotic American" who could to go to work on the western railroads, to help move men and supplies Pacificward (see BUSINESS...
...Labor has won 260 seats, the Liberals might hold the balance of power. The Liberals are not expected to gain more than seven new seats, bringing their total to 25. Liberal Leader Sir Archibald Sinclair is one of Winston Churchill's closest friends and a Conservative-Liberal coalition government was possible. But if Labor has won 100 new seats and even a part of the 50 doubtful seats, the Conservative majority would be narrowed to the point where it was all but unworkable...
...describe drily as an "essayist" for the Government), and sat through "almost identical speeches" by the editors of Pravda and Izvestia, who insisted that only the U.S.S.R. had a truly free press. They concluded that Russian editors get their ideas of the U.S. press from such books as Upton Sinclair's Brass Check (1919) and from Tass News Agency, which carries 13,000 words a day from America but "does not give any real picture...
...Outline in 1921 did factual books of general or topical interest begin to rival romance and adventure. But topicality, whether in fact or fiction, has proved no more certain an index to popularity than literary merit. With its sensational expose of the "meat trust" in 1906, Upton Sinclair's The Jungle created a furore worthy of Zola and led directly to the passage of the Pure Food and Drugs Act. But on the year's best-seller list it was handily topped by the newest novels of three perennial favorites, Winston Churchill, Owen Wister (Lady Baltimore), and Robert...
...Majesty a list of his new Ministers, all familiar Tory faces but for a few equally familiar National Liberals and nonparty men who had served in the coalition.* Conspicuously absent from this "caretaker" government were Labor and Liberal stalwarts like Clement Attlee (formerly Deputy Prime Minister) and Sir Archibald Sinclair (formerly Minister for Air), who preferred to cross the Commons floor to the opposition benches. The government which had brought Britain through the war frorn the dark days of Dunkirk to the Nazi surrender at Reims, had become past history. Their future government was up to the British voters...