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...Upton Sinclair, best-selling socialistic novelist and pamphleteer, onetime politician and part-time prophet, gloomily predicted a postwar period of "hilarious prosperity" directly followed by a worldwide deflation, resulting in 30 or 40,000,000 jobless in the U.S. alone...
Killed in Action. Lieut. Wells Lewis, 27, sandy-haired son of Sinclair Lewis (by his first wife, now Mrs. Grace Hegger Casanova of Manhattan), himself a novelist (They Still Say No); in France...
This brought immediate denial in a dignified statement by Massachusetts' Senator Sinclair Weeks, a close personal friend of Willkie's, who concluded that he "had good reason to believe that exactly the opposite" was true. The Weeks statement was supported by other even stronger statements that in any case Willkie would not have voted for Roosevelt. Said Brother Fred Willkie: "I think he eventually would have come out for Dewey." Last week, the most complete testimony was given by Carl M. Owen, Willkie's law partner. Said Partner Owen: "I can say most emphatically that under...
...Also rejected: three U.S. companies, Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., Inc. and Sinclair Oil Corp. They sought concessions in southwestern Iran...
...State Department. Hoover's firm, United Engineering Corp., S.A., has been advising the oil-conscious Iranian Government on its oil policies since last June. By last week Teheran oil politics were gushing over. Three U.S. companies-Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. Inc. and Sinclair Oil Corp.-were seeking oil concessions from suave, car-mad Mohammed Shah Pahlavi in competition with the British Anglo-Iranian Oil Co., Ltd., the only company operating in Iran. The Royal-Dutch Shell group was reported to be angling for similar concessions. And from Moscow came word that a Soviet mission...