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...Poverty In California party took a terrific beating, won only four out of 18 contested offices. From San Francisco the conservative Chronicle sardonically observed that in the city where EPIC was founded a year ago the voters were apparently tired of "magic hocus-pocus." But undaunted Upton Sinclair, emerging from several weeks' confinement in a sanitorium, declared: "The outcome of this election will not affect in the least our plans to spread the EPIC movement throughout the country." He promised that an EPIC convention in Los Angeles this week would prepare to put a national ticket in the field...
...When Upton Sinclair was campaigning on his EPIC program of State Socialism, panic-stricken capital started flying out of California, the motion picture industry cried "Confiscation!" and announced it would move to Florida if Sinclair won, and the San Francisco Argonaut wailed: "The catastrophe of Sinclair's election would be drastic enough to overthrow all that is fine and good and stable in California life...
...Argonaut simultaneously performed a miraculous journalistic somersault. The paper which had hailed Governor Merriam last autumn as "a symbol of strength, progress and stability of traditional growth" now declared: "Would Upton Sinclair have done worse in the gubernatorial chair than the man who defeated him? It may well be doubted. He might even have done better, for he has an atom or two of genius in his composition while all one can discern in Merriam is cobwebs from an empty skull. Heaven help us before we perish from the folly of having chosen such a man as Governor...
...scientific dissection of that anigmatic animal, the parlor pink, with an explanation of how he happened to get into the parlor in the first place. "Publish of Perish" shouts forth from the Elliothousetope the atrocitties practiced upon the HArvard faculty in a bit of muckraking of which Upton Sinclair himself could be proud. Not even the short stories have been allowed to slip into a flaccid groove, as so many of the capitalistic short stories have the habit of doing. One tale of a Kansas kindergarten teacher who loses a first-class virginity on a third-class deck, while another...
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...