Word: upton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Donkeys. Simpler half of California's political pandemonium was the Democratic. Upton Sinclair, who in 1934 ran away with the Democratic nomination for Governor, much to the pain of Senator William Gibbs McAdoo, was almost erased from the picture by EPIC's defeat in the election. Nevertheless, he left behind him an organization headed by his campaign assistant, State Senator Culbert L. Olson, who remained as Democratic State Central Committee Chairman. Senator McAdoo, who regards California as his political proconsulate, did not choose to honor State Chairman Olson with more than the scantest patronage. When Mr. Olson threatened...
Taking advantage of disgruntled feelings among the EPIC's, Upton Sinclair, who announced several months ago that he was going to write a book instead of campaigning in 1936, changed his mind and whipped together a slate of EPIC delegates nominally committed to making that onetime Socialist the Democratic nominee for President. Actually, however, Mr. Sinclair stressed that he will support Roosevelt at the Democratic convention, aims only to have EPIC well represented for platform-making purposes. Unfortunately for the Sinclairs, however, State Chairman Olson, EPIC's strongest practical politician, is personally at odds with Upton Sinclair...
Ancient and Modern Languages, J. G. Hart; Anthropology, A. M. Tozzer; Biochemical Sciences, J. T. Edsall; Biology, Morgan Upton; Classics and Allied Subjects, Mason Hammond; Fine Arts, C. L. Kuhn; Geological Sciences, P. E. Raymond; History, Government and Economics, D. D. Burbank; History and Literature, F. O. Matthiessen; Literature, Mason Hammond; Mathematics, M. H. Stone; Music, G. W. Woodworth; Physics, F. H. Crawford; Philosophy and Psychology, Raphael Demos; Sociology, C. C. Zimmerman...
...there Free Will? Absolutely yes! says Upton Sinclair. Is there a God? "I can't prove to you by reason that there is a God, and I can't explain His ways to you-all the cruelties and blind waste of this universe. But this I can surely say: that it is better to be happy than sad, better to be active than impotent." He admits that he has taken a good deal on faith: "I have made my ethical code out of the hunger and thirst after social righteousness. Such a formula makes life comparatively simple...
Though he remains an unorthodox agnostic, for all his optimistic idealism, Upton Sinclair thinks there is much good in Coueism and Christian Science, much that is unfathomable in spiritualism. From Coue he evolved his own cure for insomnia, an endlessly repeated: "God is here, and God is now. God is alive, and God is real. God is all, and God is love. God is my Father, and God is my Friend. God is keeping me, and God is helping me." Though the Christian Science Monitor effectively opposed him in last year's California campaign, he tells how a Christian...