Word: sinclairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Famed among ministers as the man who suggested to Sinclair Lewis that he write a book about a minister, helped him gather material, and was appalled by the outcome, Elmer Gantry-Bill Stidger is big, baldish, hearty in the manner of preachers who did Y. M. C. A. work in the War. In the early days of radio he broadcast news from Detroit and still says: "I consider myself a reporter, not a preacher. The earliest Christians were reporters who simply told to others what they saw, heard and experienced, and that is what I try to do." Currently...
Commented Nobel Novelist Sinclair Lewis: "There is no longer any way for the Duke of Windsor to make himself useful to the world...
...assist in its campaign to unionize the Ford Motor Co., the U.A.W. published a small volume entitled The Flivver King; A Story Of Ford-America, announced an edition of 200,000 to sell at 25? each. Its author: California visionary Upton Sinclair, who wrote The Flivver King ". . . because I am sick of seeing lies enthroned and ruling the world." A novelized biography of Henry Ford, The Flivver King contains no startling new facts, presents several little-known, lively anecdotes. Sample: When Automan Ford was in the midst of his Jew-baiting campaign, he selected Cineman William Fox as a victim...
Leon H. Manheimer, Torrington, Connecticut; John R. McDaniel, Savannah, Missouri, Harold Bengloff, New York; Robert S. Hormell, Brunswick, Maine, Edward T. Haslam, Council Grove, Kansas; Lemuel Bowden, Jr., Norfolk, Virginia; John L. Wilson, Sturgis, Kentucky; Arthur L. Abrams, Roxbury; John Maier, Royersford, Pennsylvania; Edward S. Miller, Sioux City, Iowa; Sinclair T. Allen Jr., Proctor, Vermont; Earle H. Webster, Bridgewater...
When a London gossip writer mentioned Columnist Dorothy Thompson for the Presidency, newshawks scurried to get her reaction. "Ridiculous," she pooh-poohed. "I'm very much for it," declared Husband Sinclair Lewis, "then I can syndicate a column called...