Lanny Budd, presidential agent / written by Malvin Wald ; producer-director, John Goetz. 1961 Dec.

Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968

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Upton Sinclair was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1878. Sinclair was an American author, novelist, journalist, and political activist who wrote many books in several genres. He is most well-known for his exposé, The Jungle regarding conditions in Chicago's meat packing plants, which influenced the passage of the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906. Much of Sinclair's writing was related to the economic and social conditions of the early twentieth century. He was heavily in...

Goetz, John C.

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Wald, Malvin

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Malvin Daniel Wald (1917-2008) was born to Rudy and Bella Danglo Wald in Brooklyn, New York, and attended local schools. He arrived at Brooklyn College as a fifteen year old frshman. He described the college, located in downtown Brooklyn, as one with "no ivy-covered walls ... an assortment of rented lofts in ... scattered buildings in the bustling downtown Borough Hall section of Brooklyn. It was the Depression ... competition was fierce, standards high. As a graduate student, Wald attended New ...