Word: sinclairism
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...would not have been construed as a vote of no-confidence in Dr. Tugwell's patron, Franklin D. Roosevelt. But Senatorial motives mattered little to Rexford Guy Tugwell. In his office after the confirmation, he beamingly received congratulations and that night one of his friends, Novelist Sinclair Lewis, gave a party to celebrate the victory. Then the handsome, happy professor entrained for the West, to attend a farmers' picnic at Brookings, S. Dak., to make a ten-day inspection tour of agricultural experiment stations and grasshopper control projects. But though he gaily turned his back on the brief...
...setting off its charges against NRA the Darrow Board had not escaped personal losses. Of the six original Board members, only four were left. John F. Sinclair, New York financial writer, had resigned because the first report was too radical. William Ormonde Thompson, old-time labor mediator and onetime law partner of Clarence Darrow, resigned because the second report was not radical enough. He had expected the Board to flay NRA for its failure to make famed Section 7 (a) the infallible collective bargaining weapon for which it was intended. "Step by step," said he, in a long denunciatory message...
...Major Albert Warner, in charge of distribution, told what his brother Jack, in charge of production, had prepared for 1934-35; Barbara Stanwyck in Willa Gather's A Lost Lady, a sequel to I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang called I'm Back in the Chain Gang; Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt, with Guy Kibbee; Anthony Adverse; Dolores Del Rio in Farewell to Shanghai; journalistic investigations of bicycle racing. Boulder Dam, roadhouses. traveling salesladies; five musical pictures...
...worthy work in the best field of letters. At a testimonial dinner presided over by Pontifex Minimus Henry Seidel Canty, buttressed by such notables as Nicholas Murray Butler, Thomas W. Lamont, Owen D. Young, Mrs. Ogden Reid, Felix Warburg, William Allen White, such literary sidelights as Willa Gather, Sinclair Lewis; Christopher Morley, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, the praises of Thomas Mann were to be chanted, droned and anecdotalized hour after hour at the Plaza Hotel...
...Sinclair: We have heard largely one side of the controversy-that of the complainant. . . . The fatal weakness of our Work up to this time . . . centres in not having secured at the very start of our investigation, a thoroughly competent professional staff of men-experts in code law and economic research. . . . But the majority of the Board has not seen fit to approach this investigation from the point of view of careful research and analysis. . . . We have received several thousand complaints . . . from small businessmen who claim they are being strangled under Various codes. . . . Most of the questions raised by the vast...