Word: sinclairism
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...assist in its campaign to unionize the Ford Motor Co., the U.A.W. published a small volume entitled The Flivver King; A Story Of Ford-America, announced an edition of 200,000 to sell at 25? each. Its author: California visionary Upton Sinclair, who wrote The Flivver King ". . . because I am sick of seeing lies enthroned and ruling the world." A novelized biography of Henry Ford, The Flivver King contains no startling new facts, presents several little-known, lively anecdotes. Sample: When Automan Ford was in the midst of his Jew-baiting campaign, he selected Cineman William Fox as a victim...
Leon H. Manheimer, Torrington, Connecticut; John R. McDaniel, Savannah, Missouri, Harold Bengloff, New York; Robert S. Hormell, Brunswick, Maine, Edward T. Haslam, Council Grove, Kansas; Lemuel Bowden, Jr., Norfolk, Virginia; John L. Wilson, Sturgis, Kentucky; Arthur L. Abrams, Roxbury; John Maier, Royersford, Pennsylvania; Edward S. Miller, Sioux City, Iowa; Sinclair T. Allen Jr., Proctor, Vermont; Earle H. Webster, Bridgewater...
When a London gossip writer mentioned Columnist Dorothy Thompson for the Presidency, newshawks scurried to get her reaction. "Ridiculous," she pooh-poohed. "I'm very much for it," declared Husband Sinclair Lewis, "then I can syndicate a column called...
Liberal Leader Sir Archibald Sinclair argued that millions of Jews all over the world will develop harmful Freudian complexes if the Jews of Palestine, although given its richest land by the proposed partition, are denied the psychological release of owning certain sacred mounts, even though they be given other mounts. Cried emotional Sir Archibald: "Mount Pisgah will never satisfy the longings which Mount Zion inspires in the Jewish breast! I warn that the whole Jewish race would get a fixation...
...Angeles, Pastor Carl Allen of Woodcrest Community Methodist Episcopal Church got the approval of his governing board to change the Sabbath services for his flock of 115 to Thursday evening. A confirmed reformer who went on the stump for Upton Sinclair's EPIC last year, long-faced, sober Pastor Allen explained: "The residents of this community are working every possible day to make up for the worry during the Depression. ... I believe they should be free to go to the beach or mountains Sunday without feeling it is wrong. . . . Jesus consistently taught that man was to have preference over...