Word: sinclairs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...down the list in profits. To jack them up, Kingan's directors lured H. Frederick Willkie, brother of the late Wendell Willkie, away from his $100,000 vice president's job at Joseph E. Seagram & Sons Inc., installed him as president. Kingan's conservative President "W.R." Sinclair agreed to step aside while Willkie worked on the patient...
...loaf, meat spreads and sausages. Willkie also advised a streamlined administration, a big research program, improved sanitation controls and a heavy advertising campaign. The old guard objected to many of Willkie's expensive ideas. Says Willkie: "From the very outset, I [was] blocked and interfered with by the Sinclair family and its palace guard installed in key positions...
...mummy. For Jeff Selleck has not sprung from the soil of the creative imagination; he has been raised from the dust of the literary graveyard. He is a latter-day George Babbitt a westernized George Apley, a bewildered Willy Loman, stained with the pathos oJ success. Whenever Sinclair Lewis, John Marquand or Arthur Miller fail him, Author Jonas falls back on George Gallup. Jeff Selleck's life is the stuff life insurance actuary tables are made...
...means a record. Another reader (a pro named Upton Sinclair), for instance, has had 18 letters published in TIME, starting with the Nov. 10, 1924 issue...
Things began to settle down. After greetings and thanks from the co-chairman of the dinner, Mrs. William Kirliam, and a progress report on the Massachusetts GNP from Daniel Tyler (State Committee Chairman), Sinclair Weeks introduced Robert Montgomery, one of the principal speakers. The audience rose and cheered as a short, gray-haired and glamorous man with hornrimmed glasses shook hands all around and stepped up to the microphones...