Word: upton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Peggy Hopkins Joyce (maiden name: Margaret Upton), 64, blonde, blue-eyed, oldtime showgirl, six times married, 50 times engaged (her boast), who wed and fled three U.S. millionaires in rapid succession but collected and gloried in Rolls-Royces, furs, jewels, champagne and swimming pools until she came to symbolize the high-living, big-spending '20s; of throat cancer; in Manhattan...
...UPTON SINCLAIR Corona, Calif...
...When Upton Sinclair was living in Mary McDowell's stockyards settlement house in Chicago and raking up the muck for his novel The Jungle, a trim little (5 ft. 4 in.) woman doctor named Alice Hamilton was living only five miles away in Hull House. Indiana-bred, raised in ease, and educated at Miss Porter's famed school at Farmington, Conn., Alice Hamilton was working at the turn of the century as a bacteriologist by day but did settlement work by night and on weekends. Thus she met countless victims of industrial hazards and eventually became the founder...
...Long Voyage Home. In Shelburne Falls, Mass., after he had raided the Shelburne Falls V.F.W. Club on six separate nights, made off with a total of $820. George H. Upton decided that his usual route to the club had become too risky, swam 400 ft. across the Deerfield River, clambered up a steep bank, found nothing else to steal in the clubhouse, spotted a dime that post officials had pasted on the wall "for the convenience of robbers." used it to call police, dejectedly swam back across the river, gave himself...
...most citizens (including T.R.) that good food could turn to poison. One such educator was a testy Department of Agriculture chemist. Dr. Harvey Washington ("Old Borax") Wiley, who got a volunteer "poison squad" to eat spoiling food, triumphantly proved that it made them miserably sick. In The Jungle, Muckraker Upton Sinclair rubbed the nation's nose in the filth of Chicago packing plants. On June 30, 1906, Teddy Roosevelt rode to the Capitol and ceremoniously signed the first U.S. Food and Drugs Act, to protect the people's stomach from willful or careless poisoning...