Word: upton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...World War definitely to judge of its general benefits to mankind, yet the victory did result in preventing domination by autocracy, with all of its disastrous effects upon civilization, and the evidence is clear that the free peoples of the world will unite in resisting such domination." Upton Sinclair, "U. S. Bolshevik": "The world gained by the World War an opportunity to learn thoroughly that capitalist governments are incompetent to manage civilized communities, and that national competition for raw materials and foreign markets will wreck civilization during the present generation, if it is not checked by a system of international...
Political bands have learned a new tune, The Ladies are Coming. Four years ago women were first recognized by the National Republican organization. The form of the recognition consisted chiefly in the appointment of Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton as Vice Chairman of the National Executive Committee. Next Fall Mrs. Upton is going to run in the 19th Ohio district as a candidate for the Republican nomination for Congressman. Meanwhile she offered her resignation as Vice Chairman of the Executive Committee...
...Associated Press for the benefit of seniors interested in that business. As the advisory season is now on, I write to say that it should have been an apology. Those interested should by all means before committing themselves glance at the other side of the picture as exhibited in Upton Sinclair's "Brass Check". Sinclair's picture is just as exaggerated as the A. P. man's, but I know from experience that it's just as true...
That iconoclast of the present era of university education, Mr. Upton Sinclair, must have laughed a grimly sardonic laugh when he read of the strike of five hundred students of Millikin University, at Decatur, Illinois. The contention, which he defended in "The Goose Step", that most American colleges are run under the influence and according to the malignant desires of the capitalistic classes whose representatives sit on various boards of trustees and governors, seems at least in one instance to have contained a certain measure of truth. The Board of Managers of Millikin University, which derives its income from...
...publish books and pamphlets about Marxism and our great revolution. We encourage young authors to interpret its spirit and inspire the masses. We even issue cheap editions of the Russian classics. But the public reads-what? -Tarzan." Explaining why O. Henry, H. G. Wells, Conan Doyle, Jack London and Upton Sinclair are more popular than Russian authors, the newspaper continued: "It is because old Russian literature is out of date, and the new is dry, dull or too subtle for mass com-prehension...