Word: sinclairism
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...lean, salty Governor will finish out his present job and run for the Senate in November. The Bay State applauded his decision. To keep the Senate seat warm for eleven and a half months, Governor Saltonstall then appointed his friend, Harvard classmate ('14) and townsman (Newton), balding, genial Sinclair ("Sinnie") Weeks...
...Sinclair Weeks has been a Republican from his cradle. His father was the late John Wingate Weeks, prosperous Boston broker (Hornblower & Weeks), who went through the House and Senate to become Harding's Secretary of War. In the 1916 G.O.P. convention, John Weeks ran second to Charles Evans Hughes in the balloting...
...artillery captain in World War I, Sinclair Weeks, like his father, began his political career as an alderman, became mayor of West Newton. He tried for the Senate in 1936, was nosed out for the nomination by Cabot Lodge. He fathered six children, built up a solid fortune as president of Reed & Barton (silverware) and board chairman of United-Carr Fastener Corp. (metal fasteners, buckles, clips). An able businessman in politics, he put the Massachusetts G.O.P. on a sound financial basis, is now treasurer of the G.O.P. National Committee...
...recognize him. The honorable member for Vancouver North had been excused from the last three sessions because of a more pressing assignment: administrative duty with the City of Windsor Spitfire squadron, which fought in Egypt, Libya, Malta and is now in Italy. He was Flight Lieut. James Sinclair, 35, onetime Rhodes scholar, home on leave...
...Airman Sinclair had come back to warn his fellow members that they had better legislate now to provide for the fighting men against the day that fighting ceases. He had specific complaints: 1) that the allowances now planned for demobilized men in training for civilian jobs are insufficient; 2) that the Canadian system of discharge pay (one month) is unfair and insufficient. The Flight Lieutenant spoke for the ranks...