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...with other California products. Except for the support of individual Utopians it has no connection with the Utopian Society, a mystic mixture of Technocracy, Communism and Ku Klux Klannishness which sprouted in Los Angeles and is now burgeoning throughout the West. It does not even have the sympathy of Upton Sinclair, whose EPIC plan would pension all oldsters at a mere $50 per month. Candidate Sinclair has said of it: "It would only take money away from able-bodied young people and give it to a group of old persons. It would impose an exorbitant sales tax which the masses...
...every week. That such luxurious free publicity should have brought Today only 59,000 circulation in its first year is a baffling fact. But last week Editor Raymond Moley proved that, if he is not a successful editor, he is an honest one. His subject was California's Upton ("Epic") Sinclair. Had he aped all bigwig Democrats-Senator William Gibbs ("McAdoodle") McAdoo or James Aloysius Farley or even No. 1 Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt-he would have scratched the back of Democracy's latest, queerest duckling. Instead, spunky Editor Moley wrote...
...believe that Upton Sinclair's plan to end poverty will end poverty. I do not believe it is sound and progressive economics. I do not believe it to be consistent with the essential policies of the New Deal. And I do not believe that it is intellectually honest to say that it must be tried before it can be condemned...
...Election betting on Socialist-turned-Democrat Upton Sinclair plunged to even money. Forthwith the stocks of six big California enterprises listed on the New York Stock Exchange sloughed off $60,000,000 in total value in one day. The market value of the securities of California's three leading utilities has dropped $100,000,000 since the August primaries when Mr. Sinclair was nominated. A list of 20 California stocks (including preferreds) has dropped 16% in the last five weeks...
...exhibitions of selected and rare books are now being held in Widener Library. In the Widener Room the University's collection of Shakspere portfolios is on display and in the Treasure Room various volumes of Italian Literature and Poetry are to be seen. The Poetry Room contains editions of Upton Sinclair and George Edward Woodberry...