Word: sinclairism
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...history of socialism at Harvard is being published this month in leaflet from. It will trace the club from its inception in 1902 as a chapter of the Intercollegiate Socialist Association, now the League for Industrial Democracy. Jack London and Upton Sinclair played a large part in the movement then. Socialism reached its peak here about 1910 when the membership of the chapter included such men as Heywood Broun '10, Walter Lippman '10, and Kenneth Macgowan '11. After that the organization weakened and, at the time of the war, disappeared completely. LaFollette's campaign for president in 1924 centered...
William Bateman Leeds Jr., sportsman, gave his yacht Sinco (onetime boat of Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair) to dapper Police Commissioner Grover Aloysius Whalen of New York City for official use, probably for the harbor reception of visiting notables...
...Sinclair Lewis, best-selling author (Main Street, Babbitt, Elmer Gantry), petitioned that he be allowed to pay his onetime wife Grace Livingstone Hegger Lewis $200 monthly alimony instead of $1,000, having met with "financial reverses...
...Pacific coast last week was Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair, conferring and inspecting. Generally accepted in the oil industry as the objects of his visit were: 1) A merger of Sinclair Consolidated Oil, Prairie Oil & Gas and Rio Grande Oil; 2) sale of Sinclair's eastern retail outlets to Standard of California...
Harry Ford Sinclair, oilman, sold his Manhattan house (No. 2 East 79th St.) to Augustus Van Home Stuyvesant & Miss Anne W. Stuyvesant...