Word: sinclairism
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...American Weekly's gaudiness will find little to excite them in This Week. Printed in color gravure, This Week is edited by Mrs. William Brown Meloney, genteel white-haired editor of the New York Herald Tribune's magazine (TIME, Oct. 8). First issue includes fiction by Sinclair Lewis, Rupert Hughes, Fannie Hurst; articles by Britain's Lord Strabolgi, Scientist Roy Chapman Andrews, Artist Neysa McMein -big names which the average individual Sunday newspaper could not conveniently...
...Waldorf-Astoria. A "Pageant of America," staged by Ned Wayburn, began with Actress Selena Royle as the Atlantic Ocean, attended by Miss Lorraine Fielding as "Seaweed." They were followed by Dancer Ruth St. Denis as "Cotton," Actress Peggy ("I Love Brooklyn") Wood as "Grapes," and Mary Virginia Sinclair, daughter of Harry Ford Sinclair...
True, such projects as organized relief and the Tennessee power development point the way for the liberal element. Thus Upton Sinclair borrowed from Mr. Hopkins the concept of cooperative relief, and Norman Thomas admits his admiration of T.V.A. From this trend in time a fully developed party may spring, not necessarily a "red" organization, but quite possibly a powerful one, if it can appeal to the mass of Roosevelt supporters by going the President one better. And it is doubtful whether such eminent but capitalistic New Dealers as Messrs. Baruch, Richberg, and their friends will view such a move with...
California's Upton Sinclair began a week of three-minute, three-a-day personal appearances at a Hollywood theatre. Occasion : The showing of the cinema Our Daily Bread (TIME, Oct. 8) on which he collaborated slightly with Director King Vidor. Purpose: To chip about $2,000 off the debts incurred in his campaign for Governor. He proved a poor attraction...
Also-Ran of the Year was California's Upton Sinclair who for a time threatened to steal the spotlight of U. S. politics from Franklin Roosevelt and ended by being a thorn in the great Roosevelt's political side...