Word: upton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like Hugh Johnson, George V, Adolf Hitler. Alphonse Capone, Primo Camera, Mrs. Roosevelt, Upton Sinclair, Cavalcade & The Four Marx Brothers, Huey Pierce Long was pictured on TIME'S cover because he was eminently newsworthy...
...like the waves of the sea, pounding loudly for a little while on the beach of public attention and then receding to the silent depths of history. The Utopian movement, whipped up into big breakers by the 1934 campaign, spent itself in the defeat of California's Upton Sinclair and his EPIC. Its successor, the Townsend Plan, touched its high watermark just before Chairman Doughton of the House Ways & Means Committee put the old country doctor on the witness stand and made a monkey out of him (TIME, Feb. 18). As of All Fools Day, 1935, the largest political...
...year or a ten-year plan, but certainly not by an 18-month plan. And the campaign of 1936 is not more than 18 months ahead. If there is not recovery in 18 months then radicals will storm at the ivory gates of the Capitol. The Huey Longs, the Upton Sinclairs, the Father Coughlins, the Dr. Townsends- their successors, their deputies, their proselytes, or their social kin-will be the strong men of politics. Only Recovery can ward them off, can save Franklin Roosevelt from having his left flank turned. Therefore a helping hand to Business and Recovery, more leisurely...
Griflin (L) defeated Dawson (D), 3-1; Perry (D) defeated Stevens (L), 3-2; White (D) defeated Fuller (L), 3-1; Humstone (D) defeated Russell (L), by default; Hellmuth (L) defeated Upton...
True, such projects as organized relief and the Tennessee power development point the way for the liberal element. Thus Upton Sinclair borrowed from Mr. Hopkins the concept of cooperative relief, and Norman Thomas admits his admiration of T.V.A. From this trend in time a fully developed party may spring, not necessarily a "red" organization, but quite possibly a powerful one, if it can appeal to the mass of Roosevelt supporters by going the President one better. And it is doubtful whether such eminent but capitalistic New Dealers as Messrs. Baruch, Richberg, and their friends will view such a move with...