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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...
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...
Born and half-bred an Episcopalian (he taught Sunday School, went to church every day in Lent), Upton Sinclair soon graduated into a more intense life as a puritan in Greenwich Village. Readers accustomed to his calves-foot-jelly style may raise an eyebrow when he says that he still has the cadences of the New Testament and the prayer-book running through his head, judges his own sentences by that echo. An optimist from the word go - enemies say he even jumped the gun - Author Sinclair early joined battle with his life-long foe, Determinism. Xo philosopher nor theologian...
...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...