Word: sinclairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Major Ian Hay Beith ("Ian Hay"): "In a debate with Sinclair Lewis in London on Main Street and High Street, I declared that the English public likes a hero with aristocratic connections in these ultra-democratic days, not necessarily, a duke. But the American public like the self-made hero, who comes from the farm and devotes his life to creating panics on Wall Street...
...Upton Sinclair, Socialist novelist, was arrested for " breach of the peace and obstruction of traffic," at San Pedro (port of Los Angeles). There had been a strike of marine transport workers in San Pedro. It was charged to the I. W. W. Los Angeles (which probably comes nearer to being a non-union city than any other place of its size; memories of the McNamara dynamiting help to keep it so) threw a number of I. W. W. members into a prison stockade. Sinclair summoned a protest meeting on Liberty Hill, and started to read Article I of the Constitution...
...Gump's situation is like that of a Mr. George Babbitt, a "realtor," who appeared last year with threats of an action aginst Sinclair Lewis, on the ground that the author had subjected him to " contumely and ridicule...
...Walter J. Salmon's Vigil. His reversal of form at the Derby vindicated his backers and, incidentally, paid those who still retained their faith in him $40.40 for a $2 ticket. Over 75,000 saw the race on the historic Churchill Downs. Zev's owner, H. F. Sinclair, collected $53,625 as the stake of victory...
...Genius of America" is a series of "studies in behalf of the younger generation, especially that younger generation which claims as father and mother the heroes and heroines of Mr. Sinclair Lewis's novels. Composed for the most part of lectures delivered at the University of Chicago or articles previously printed in magazines, the book treats of various subjects in an attempt to discover where "the genius of America resides, in what institutions, in what customs and traditional beliefs, in what elements of popular culture...