Word: sinclairism
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...second told her that son Sir Roderic, 26, had been shot down in Iraq. The third reported the loss of son Sir Iain, 24, who was known as "the perfect Coastal Command pilot." With no more sons to give to her country, Lady MacRobert sent Air Minister Sir Archibald Sinclair a check for ?25,000 to buy a bomber. "It is my wish," she said, "to make-a mother's immediate reply in a way that I know would be my boys' reply -attacking, striking sharply, straight to the mark." The R.A.F. promptly named one of its giant...
Last week Lady MacRobert took out her pen and checkbook again. She sent Sir Archibald Sinclair ?20,000 to purchase four fighter planes for use "on fronts where they could aid Russia." She asked that three of the planes be named for her sons, that the fourth be called "MacRobert Salute to Russia (Lady)." "Had I been a man, I, too would have flown," said gallant Lady MacRobert...
...eyefuls and skinfuls of U.S. boomtime living, Manhattan Prohibition and Naziism; watched one son grow dully dependable and the other flirt with Naziism; and in general covered the uneven 20th-century scene with all the mountain-goat agility and twice the aptitude for human pleasure and pain of Upton Sinclair's Lanny Budd (TIME...
...radio critics, a "corps of watchmen" he hopes to see arise, he points out a few things to watch for. One is anything like a repetition of the smear campaign that used radio-advertising technique to defeat Upton Sinclair eight years ago in California. Another is the "tendency of some radio programs to spoon-feed the nation on intellectual mush almost entirely deficient in every vitamin necessary to a healthy populace capable of sustaining democracy...
...Teeth by Upton Sinclair...