Word: sinclair
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...plugged at the evidence from October 1923 until February 1924, burst forth with his accusations. Surprised at finding his old friend Edward L. Doheny implicated, he nevertheless faced him across the inquisitors' table, prosecuted the investigation relentlessly. Successful in exposing that Republican graft, in sending Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair to jail (TIME, May 13, 1929), he found himself a national figure, has since played the part well...
Impartial Senate observers rate him thus: an able legislator, a sincere, "almost fanatically high-minded" Democrat who directs party policies, hence is usually "regular," a politician who did not flinch at making enemies of such influential tycoons as Oilmen Doheny and Sinclair...
Regular Republican voters in North Dakota-once a breeding ground for political insurgency and the Non-Partisan League-went to the primary polls last week and renominated their three Congressmen: Olger B. Burtness (First District) Thomas Hall (Second District), James Herbert Sinclair (Third District...
Senator Walsh, the Senate's most famed and feared inquisitor, warned him he was risking the fate of Oilman Harry Sinclair, who went to prison for contempt of the Senate. But the Bishop contended stub bornly, sometimes waving his crutch in anger, that this Committee had no authority to expose anyone's political activities. He read aloud Supreme Court utterances which, he said, denied all committees the right to make "fruitless inquiries into citizens' personal affairs." He protested: ''This appears to me to be an effort to attack me and to impair my influence exactly...
Both Colyumist Brisbane and breezy, able John F. Sinclair of the New York World ignored the merger battle, focused upon the issue of whether any executive is worth a million a year. Said Mr. Brisbane, uncompromisingly: "A civilization that can afford to pay $250,000 a year salary for a few minutes talk on the radio can afford $1,000,000 for running a big steel concern." But Writer Sinclair quoted the late, great Nicholas F. Brady: "No employe of a well-run corporation can possibly be worth in salary over $100,000 a year...