Word: sinclairism
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Naturally in the recent California campaign many Utopian "hermits" rallied readily to Upton Sinclair, no mean borrower from Edward Bellamy himself. Sinclair's defeat was not the only grief they suffered. Quarrels broke out within the order. Founder Reed and some of his lieutenants fell out. Month ago, Founder Reed appeared in the East, took out incorporation papers in New York for the Utopian Society of America (East...
California's Upton Sinclair began work on a book to be called, I, Candidate for Governor, and How I Got Licked...
...Sproul the Administrator well knew that California's Legislature, about to meet in its biennial appropriations session, already felt none too friendly toward the University. At Berkeley he suppressed the troublemaking Social Problems Club, forbade student activity in the Merriam-Sinclair campaign. He was touring the State with soothing assurances of University loyalty when a bald, mild, solemn subordinate in Los Angeles set off last fortnight's fireworks...
...philosophy, yet shouting his support of the New Deal. There is a Republican, the traditional strong-government man, damning too much government. Everywhere are men of both parties successfully hiding their ideas on every thing except their allegiance to Washington and Lincoln. Here is Mr. Farley jumping off the Sinclair boat, there is Hiram Johnson tagging along with Him. Everywhere the fiery G. O. P. denouncing the Democrats' and handouts, to the voters, has seen its rally crowds going out to find the Democrats, and has had to soft-pedal. Perhaps no campaign has ever been so confused, so completely...
Jayhawker (by Sinclair Lewis & Lloyd Lewis; Henry Hammond. Inc., producer). Mr. Lloyd Lewis, the historian (Myths after Lincoln; Sherman, Fighting Prophet) and Mr. Sinclair Lewis, as resourceful a story-teller as the nation has produced, have concocted between them a Civil War episode which will be found in none of the history books. They would have the audience believe that in June 1864, a Kansas Senator and a Confederate general, himself a onetime U. S. Senator, planned to have both sides declare an armistice, march united against the French interlopers in Mexico, thus put an end to fraternal bloodshed...