Word: sinclairs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...monstrous," read a letter young Astor got from Muckraker Upton Sinclair soon after leaving Harvard to administer his money. "The poor people see in the papers the picture of your magnificent and luxurious home and they realize that it is out of the rents that they pay." But Astor, wiser even then than he appeared to be, replied calmly: "I am not unmindful of the wrongs to be righted...
...financial dipsy-doodling, none is more involved than a deal set up by a pair of film writers named Martin L. Rackin and John Lee Mahin. Ten months ago the team found a loose option on Harold Sinclair's Civil War novel, The Horse Soldiers, snapped it up for a token $1 (eventually they paid $30,000 for the book). Looking around for a director, Entrepreneur Rackin went to the best. "For the hell of it, I called John Ford." Before long, Director Ford, a Civil War buff, agreed to do the picture for a $200,000 flat...
...course there had to be someone to succeed Sinclair Weeks. The country must have a Secretary of Commerce because otherwise there wouldn't be anyone in the Cabinet to speak for big business. And big business does need spokesmen...
...look just like a Secretary of Commerce," joked Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks to a visitor last week. The comment was fitting: the courtly, well-tailored caller had an aura of dignity and success suitable to a Commerce Secretary, and furthermore he was soon to become Commerce Secretary. After nearly six years in the post, "Sinny" Weeks, 65, had decided to step down, and, to replace him, President Eisenhower had tabbed longtime (1953 to last June) Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis Strauss...
...original Eisenhower Cabinet,* Massachusetts Manufacturer Sinclair Weeks was a voice of oldfashioned, pre-Eisenhower Republicanism. But he grew in the job. A deep-dyed member of the old school that considered tariff protectionism a fundamental GOPrinciple, he became Washington's most improbable convert to freer trade, led this year's winning Administration fight to wring a broadened reciprocal-trade bill out of a reluctant Congress...