Word: sinclairism
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...Said Hamilton Cotton, who ran George Creel's campaign: "I sorrowfully concede the rape of the Democratic Party in California by Upton Sinclair...
...Sinclair victory threatened to drive California moderates as well as conservatives to vote the Republican ticket in November. If such a mass movement should develop, it might sweep many a luckless Democratic Representative out of his seat and return to the House a batch of Republicans who would do the prestige of the Roosevelt Administration no national good whatever. Both Boss Farley and President Roosevelt were anxiously aware of these possibilities when Republican Senator Hastings of Delaware said the thing they did not want said: "Upton Sinclair is a Socialist running on a Socialist platform heartily endorsing the New Deal...
...Franklin Roosevelt's discomfiture, Nominee Sinclair, in a dither of haste to get into the spotlight, wired him asking for an interview as soon as possible. There is plenty of precedent for a President keeping on the fence in a pre-primary campaign, but for him to deny his countenance to an actual nominee of his own party is almost unprecedented. Yet to shake Upton Sinclair's hand in welcome at Hyde Park would have tended to confirm Senator Hastings' inference. With the best grace
Last week the managing director of the world's largest crude producer was bluntly answered by a U. S. oilman just back from Sir Henri's home territory. Rapped out Harry Ford Sinclair of Consolidated Oil: "What about Europe putting its own house in order? In one country I visited they were selling gas at ... less than it costs to produce. And if you want to know the country, it was Holland...
...week's visit to Manhattan, Sir Henri had calmly announced that railroad electrification was already obsolete, that the Diesel engine was the locomotive of the future. On that score, too, Mr. Sinclair had a ready answer: "What's the difference whether you drink Scotch or bourbon"?a reference to the fact that U. S. railroads already burn some 2,000,000,000 gal. of fuel oil per year...