Word: upton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Upton Sinclair-Farrar & Rinehart...
When the literary history of the present era is eventually written, the strange and flighty career of Upton Sinclair is likely to provide one of its most picturesque footnotes. He is as much a literary oddity and popular favorite as General Lew Wallace, who wrote Ben Hur while Governor of New Mexico, and who was distracted from his romance by the lawless exploits of Billy the Kid. Belonging to that class of writers who, unable to choose between the world of affairs and the literary life, have attempted both and succeeded in neither, Sinclair is known in political circles...
...California Democratic voters had a choice of two protests against President Roosevelt's failure to embrace "Production-for-Use" and the Townsend Plan. When the results were counted, 101,403 had chosen Upton Sinclair's EPIC slate; 58,897 had plumped for Representative John S. McGroarty's Townsendite group. That left the President a tremendous majority...
During the past year these changes affecting the California carbuncle on the body of the A. M. A. have occurred: the A. M. A. has become more lenient toward California experiments in the relation of doctor to patient; California doctors were scared away from drastic changes in ethics by Upton Sinclair's EPIC. Dr. Coffey hopes that by "playing ball" with the A. M. A., that organization will fulfill his dearest wish and agree that he has cured many a case of cancer with hypodermic injections of extracts of adrenal cortex (TIME, Nov. 11 et ante...
...dead at 33, buried by the Kremlin wall close to the tomb of Russia's god, is already canonized. To such Harvard classmates as Red-fearing Hamilton Fish Jr., Reed was a traitor to his class. But even within the revolutionary sect his sainthood is not unanimously acknowledged. Upton Sinclair called him "the playboy of the social revolution." To sympathetic Biographer Granville Hicks. Reed's life is an ennobling example of how revolutionaries are made. Unbiased readers of John Reed will feel that Sinclair's judgment hits nearest the mark, but that Reed was a Promethean playboy...