Word: sinclairism
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...first blast of criticism was set off by Liberal Leader Sir Archibald Sinclair, big Scottish landowner, Legion of Honor hero in World War I and among Winston Churchill's closest advisers. Mentioned among the ginger groups as a possible Prime Minister because he did a good job as Secretary of State for Scotland in Ramsay Macdonald's Cabinet and yet stands well with the Tories, Sir Archibald demanded a "grand inquest." "I hope," he thundered to an Edinburgh audience, "that it is not too late for craven and irresolute counsels to be suppressed. ... I am amazed...
...worker out of six. One reason for all these headaches to Lazaro Cardenas has been the efforts of expropriated U. S. and British oilmen to maintain a "united front" and refuse to market for the Mexican Government oil they considered stolen from them. Last week Oilman Harry F. Sinclair blithely deserted the united front to make an inside deal with the Cardenas Government...
...chose the review of Sinclair Lewis' latest book, Bethel Merriday, from the March 25 TIME. When we came to class the next day with our assignments we told the name of the book selected, the reviewer, and the magazine from which it was taken...
MEXICO CITY--The usually well-in-formed Boletin Financiero today published "reliable reports" that agreement has been reached by the Mexican Government and the Sinclair Oil Company for settlement of their 25-month-old expropriation dispute...
...reader will note that Sinclair Lewis' mellowness sometimes goes maudlin, that his asides on the renaissance of the stage through college and summer theatre companies are more enthusiastic than thoughtful, that about half his characters are themselves straight out of stock, and that as a novel the education of Bethel Merriday is neither so close-knit nor so serious in import as was that of Martin Arrowsmith. But the reader must likewise note that this is not the sour and rickety work of an old self-imitator but a buoyant tale with neither claims nor pretensions to being...