Word: upton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Freshman Team A; ends, Kilgore and Robinson; tackles, Daley and Porter; guards, Platt and Colby; center, Bond; quarterback, Hamlin; backs, Zarakov, Miller, and Upton...
President, Ford; Vice President, Voliva (leader of a religious sect that runs Zion City, in northern Illinois. He and the city are noted 1) for arresting automobilists; 2) for making women wear high-necked dresses and long skirts; 3) for believing that the world is flat); Secretary of State, Upton Sinclair; Secretary of Commerce, La Follette; Secretary of the Treasury, Wildman Brookhart; Secretary of the Navy, Arthur Brisbane; Secretary of War, W. J. Bryan...
Soviet Russia is in the throes of a book revolution. Twenty-seven works of Jack London in editions of 10,000 each were published by the Government Publishing House. More are required. Upton Sinclair's Jimmie Higgins exhausted two 10,000 editions in three months; 25,000 of his Jungle were sold; his 100% has an almost unlimited sale." Sinclair Lewis' Main Street and Babbit were sold out before the printing was finished. A 10,000 edition of 0. Henry was absorbed in Moscow. H. G. Wells War in the Air ran through a 15,000 edition...
Russian bestsellers: Jack London, Upton Sinclair, H. G. Wells (Socialists), Sinclair Lewis and 0. Henry...
...privilege. On the Republican Executive Committee there are eight men and eight women, but since the officers of the Republican National Committee are ex-officio members of the Executive Committee, the women are outvoted. Mrs. Medill McCormick (wife of the Senator from Illinois), Mrs. Arthur Livermore, Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton are among the women members of the Executive Committee. Mr. Adams, Chairman of the National Committee, has not the power to decide whether women shall constitute half of the National Committee-that decision will devolve on the National Convention...