Word: sinclairism
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...past year these changes affecting the California carbuncle on the body of the A. M. A. have occurred: the A. M. A. has become more lenient toward California experiments in the relation of doctor to patient; California doctors were scared away from drastic changes in ethics by Upton Sinclair's EPIC. Dr. Coffey hopes that by "playing ball" with the A. M. A., that organization will fulfill his dearest wish and agree that he has cured many a case of cancer with hypodermic injections of extracts of adrenal cortex (TIME, Nov. 11 et ante...
...buried by the Kremlin wall close to the tomb of Russia's god, is already canonized. To such Harvard classmates as Red-fearing Hamilton Fish Jr., Reed was a traitor to his class. But even within the revolutionary sect his sainthood is not unanimously acknowledged. Upton Sinclair called him "the playboy of the social revolution." To sympathetic Biographer Granville Hicks. Reed's life is an ennobling example of how revolutionaries are made. Unbiased readers of John Reed will feel that Sinclair's judgment hits nearest the mark, but that Reed was a Promethean playboy and what...
Donkeys. Simpler half of California's political pandemonium was the Democratic. Upton Sinclair, who in 1934 ran away with the Democratic nomination for Governor, much to the pain of Senator William Gibbs McAdoo, was almost erased from the picture by EPIC's defeat in the election. Nevertheless, he left behind him an organization headed by his campaign assistant, State Senator Culbert L. Olson, who remained as Democratic State Central Committee Chairman. Senator McAdoo, who regards California as his political proconsulate, did not choose to honor State Chairman Olson with more than the scantest patronage. When Mr. Olson threatened...
Taking advantage of disgruntled feelings among the EPIC's, Upton Sinclair, who announced several months ago that he was going to write a book instead of campaigning in 1936, changed his mind and whipped together a slate of EPIC delegates nominally committed to making that onetime Socialist the Democratic nominee for President. Actually, however, Mr. Sinclair stressed that he will support Roosevelt at the Democratic convention, aims only to have EPIC well represented for platform-making purposes. Unfortunately for the Sinclairs, however, State Chairman Olson, EPIC's strongest practical politician, is personally at odds with Upton Sinclair...
...years, on & off, at a good hotel, the Bellevue-Stratford. In 1920 Dr. Steele established a church farm in the country, scandalized the Lord's Day Alliance by instituting Sunday "Pray & Play" services blending worship and baseball. In 1927 he gave a public lecture in defense of Sinclair Lewis' Elmer Gantry. In 1934 Dr. Steele vented his wrath at the nation's two most ubiquitous females...