Word: sinclairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Paddy Harmon soon proved himself no showman. In autumn, 1929, after a half-year's operation, the stadium was $300,000 in the red. The directors got Sheldon Clark, vice president of Sinclair Refining Co., to come in as president. Business got no better. Bond interest had to be defaulted. In June 1930, Sidney Strotz asked to be given a crack at the presidency...
...Priestley said last week, "Dickens is still read in America." Miss Hurst, and many another U. S. citizen, pounced simultaneously on a Priestley error of fact. He had said that Americans buy but do not read books, cited as proof the fact that an English friend had found Sinclair Lewis novels in homes throughout the U. S. "uncut." As Americans know, all trade editions of Mr. Lewis' novels, and nearly all U. S. novels, are machine cut, defy detection as to whether they have been read...
...Doctrinaire Upton Sinclair could get as much feeling of helpless human tragedy into his propaganda novels as Louis Colman gets into Lumber, Socialists...
Capitalists alike would take more stock in Upton Sinclair. Lumber is not recognizably propaganda, but it is a story of Labor, and if you can read it without being moved, you deserve to have the Wobblies...
...time. This is deplorable enough. But when matters progress so far that a good, honest hoax is cut off in the very blossoms of popularity. It is allowable that conscientious Americans should object. The baring of the art hoax in Boston yesterday, a mere three years after Upton Sinclair had told his small world of readers about it, is clearly a case that cannot be handled in town meeting. Progressive action is demanded...