Word: sinclairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worthy work in the best field of letters. At a testimonial dinner presided over by Pontifex Minimus Henry Seidel Canty, buttressed by such notables as Nicholas Murray Butler, Thomas W. Lamont, Owen D. Young, Mrs. Ogden Reid, Felix Warburg, William Allen White, such literary sidelights as Willa Gather, Sinclair Lewis; Christopher Morley, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, the praises of Thomas Mann were to be chanted, droned and anecdotalized hour after hour at the Plaza Hotel...
...last week. Behind the doors political dynamite was in manufacture, the long-awaited report by Clarence Darrow and his special board on the operations of NRA as they affected the small industrialist and businessman was being mimeographed. Also being mimeographed under guard were the dissenting report of John F. Sinclair of Manhattan, newspaper financial columnist and member of the Darrow board, and the caustic retort of General Johnson...
...zero hour 150,000 words of controversy were dumped upon the public. Vitriolic bomb shells of recrimination burst in the camps of Johnson and Darrow while Sinclair's trench mortar added to the loud discord. By and large the U. S. took the bombardment without flinching...
...detailed criticism of particular NRA codes from the Darrow artillery; 2) an equally detailed counter-volley from NRA's Counsel, Donald Richberg. Mr. Darrow was for a strong Leftward swing by NRA toward Socialism. General Johnson stoutly defended the patchwork job he had done for Capitalism. Mr. Sinclair engaged in a flanking fire upon the Darrow board's methods and conclusions. The gist of their viewpoints...
...Sinclair: We have heard largely one side of the controversy-that of the complainant. . . . The fatal weakness of our Work up to this time . . . centres in not having secured at the very start of our investigation, a thoroughly competent professional staff of men-experts in code law and economic research. . . . But the majority of the Board has not seen fit to approach this investigation from the point of view of careful research and analysis. . . . We have received several thousand complaints . . . from small businessmen who claim they are being strangled under Various codes. . . . Most of the questions raised by the vast...