Word: sinclair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...school children who were let out of school and most of the 400,000 who are on relief here, all of whom lined the streets from the station to the Coliseum. The Coliseum was almost filled. The Epic Socialists passed out literature at the Coliseum and Upton Sinclair was in the limelight...
Before the week was out, Massachusetts had produced another descendant of a proud forebear to challenge young Mr. Lodge's candidacy. Republican friends of Mayor Sinclair ("Sinny") Weeks of Newton, son of the late John Wingate Weeks, onetime (1913-19) U. S. Senator, onetime (1921-25) Secretary of War, reported that they had likewise prevailed upon him to go after the Senate...
...Rose got the peerless team of Rodgers & Hart to write his score, able Albert Johnson to do his sets and to refurnish (cost: $40,000) the fusty interior of North America's best-known show house (rental: $104,000 a year). He hired actors like Jimmy Durante, Arthur Sinclair, Blanche Ring for his star parts. And, catching them when they needed money, he contracted with Playwrights Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur to write a libretto on which he could string his circus acts, stars and tunes. Messrs. Hecht & MacArthur repaired for a fortnight last winter to Suite No. 21, Villa...
...HAPPEN HERE-Sinclair Lewis -Doubleday, Doran...
Regardless of whether a Doremus Jessup can die, It Can't Happen Here reveals with painful clarity that Sinclair Lewis cannot make one live. As a result, the 15th novel of the only U. S. writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature must be classed as one of his least successful efforts. Partly a political farce, it deals with events too troubling and violent, and is too extended to be amusing. Partly a serious effort to warn readers of the dangers of a dictatorship, it presents that dictatorship as too weird to be convincing or alarming...