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With Blair & Co. in Prairie, with Cutten in Sinclair, drawers of inferences soon began to predict a Prairie-Sinclair merger. Point One: Elisha Walker is a Sinclair director-a potent and obvious point. Point Two: Prairie Oil & Gas, with assets of $186,323,925, is the largest U. S. producer of crude oil. Harry F. Sinclair needs constantly more oil for the Sinclair Refining Co. Obviously happy would be an arrangement whereby Sinclair refineries could call upon Prairie Oil, whereby Prairie Oil would have an affiliated customer in Sinclair Refining. Why should not Sinclair Directors Walker and Cutten confer together...
...governmental agencies of the U. S.-federal, state, municipal-would map out and authorize large programs of public work which will be needed eventually though not immediately. Let these programs then be held in abeyance, said the collaborators, until such time as labor and fiscal indices show or predict a slump, local or national. Then let the contracts, hire the men, buy the materials, do the public work, convert the slump into a boom...
...delicate matter. Of course, so illustrious a pet would be welcomed and appreciated by anyone with any feeling at all for dogs. But the Hoovers had a dog already, a shaggy, grim-grinning German police dog, perfectly respectable as to breeding though no multiple champion. To predict that this staunch friend of Commerce Department days would be relegated at the White House to give place to ever-so-aristocratic Bellhaven Behoover, was something few predicters would venture. The odds seemed the other way, that this dog would be First Dog, just as surely as faithful Secretary's Secretary George Akerson...
Accordingly, in order to keep the vote from being practically unanimous, for the choice of Joe Forecast in those Open Spaces where his word is law, I will withhold my prediction until Tuesday morning. I aim only to predict, not to influence public opinion. Not that I couldn't influence it, if I chose, and occasionally have...
...either ironic or foolish in the extreme to predict the ultimate eclipse of Nominee Smith by the man who is still trying, perhaps harder than any one else, to make him a lasting national figure. The Roosevelt nomination did, however, seem almost certain to make national political history of some kind...