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...driving him back into the cage before he could clear the ball. Johnny England, Crimson goalie, managed to ward off Bulldog attackers with great difficulty. The summary: HARVARD YALE England, g. g., Blake Stent, Holcombe, l.f.b. r.f.b., Ward, Orth Robinson, r.f.b. l.f.b., Murray (Capt.), Belin Vincent, Russell, l.h.b. r.h.b., Upton, Bronson Dorman, c.h.b. c.h.b., Badman, Smith Roosevelt, Seeman, r.h.b. l.h.b., Brill, Larkin Wood, l.o.f. r.o.f., Coerr, Jennings Stork, (Capt.). Kelley, l.i.f. r.i.f. Pond Grover, c.f. c.f., Badger Clos, Motley, r.i.f. l.i.f., Lasell Manheimer, Willetts, r.o.f. l.o.f., Levine...
Naturally in the recent California campaign many Utopian "hermits" rallied readily to Upton Sinclair, no mean borrower from Edward Bellamy himself. Sinclair's defeat was not the only grief they suffered. Quarrels broke out within the order. Founder Reed and some of his lieutenants fell out. Month ago, Founder Reed appeared in the East, took out incorporation papers in New York for the Utopian Society of America (East...
...money for the 1,500,000 new citizens expected to arrive in the State because of the Sinclair Utopia. A fake "Young People's Communist League" leaflet bore the party hammer-&- sickle and an endorsement of Sinclair. In preparation, said Sinclair headquarters, were 1,000,000 pamphlets alleging that Upton Sinclair had once tried to take out Russian citizenship papers in Moscow...
Aimee Semple McPherson was out for Merriam, picturing Upton Sinclair as "a red devil." Seeress Gene Dennis consulted the stars, predicted that Acting Governor Merriam would win, the election. The Literary Digest poll said the same thing?2½-to-1. The gamblers' money had switched to Merriam at 5-to-1. Almost as hysterical as his opponents, Sinclair charged that "208 experienced gangsters" had been brought from New York to substitute "stuffed" ballot boxes for the official ones...
...nation-wide setup not unlike Upton Sinclair's EPIC, whereunder the unemployed would make commodities for consumption by the unemployed. Such a program would probably be cheaper than the dole-and-relief work but it has two main disadvantages: a) economically it might tend to throw some workers in private enterprise out of their jobs; b) politically it would arouse a storm of conservative opposition from manufacturers who feel the pinch of direct government competition...