Word: sinclair
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Cutten & Sinclair. Inquisitor Pecora's next witness was not so explicit as Mr. Raskob, but the Senators eyed him much more curiously. He was not only the manager of a syndicate which had cleared $12,000,000 without putting up I? but also the biggest stock and grain speculator that the Senators had yet beheld. Spare, white-haired, slightly deaf Arthur William Cutten sat with his hand cupped behind his ear throughout most of the long interrogation on the great Sinclair Consolidated Oil pool of 1928-29. Unsmiling he peered through his spectacles at Inquisitor Pecora whom he could...
Inquisitor Pecora learned that Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair had asked Mr. Cutten to head a syndicate which was to buy 1,130,000 shares of Sinclair Consolidated from the company at $30 a share. At first, when Sinclair was selling on the New York Stock Exchange at $28 a share, Mr. Cutten was not interested but when it later rose to $32 he accepted. Harry Sinclair, Arthur Cutten, Blair & Co. and Chase Securities each got a 22]% participation in the $33,000,000 syndicate, and the balance was allotted among such friendly interests as the security affiliate of Chicago...
...William Samuel Fitzpatrick, chairman of Prairie Oil, then a Sinclair competitor but later merged, was paid $300,000 out of the pool's profits although he had no interest, Mr. Cutten could not explain. "All we know, then," remarked Inquisitor Pecora, exasperated, "is that it wasn't made at Christmas time, so it couldn't have been a Christmas gift...
...citizen's country. Whether or not the Committee deals out its favors impartially, it obviously tries to rotate them. Last year the Nobel Prize in Literature went to England (the late John Galsworthy), the year before to Sweden (Erik Axel Karlfeldt), year before that to the U. S. (Sinclair Lewis). This year for the first time it went to a man without a country...
With the twentieth century and the war came a closer approach to comprehension. Sinclair Lewis, Dreiser, Mencken, furnished blocks for the building; but none was sufficient architect to complete the edifice. Others were sidetracked, as Irving Babbitt to Humanism, Thornton Wilder to Catholicism, Krutch, Jeffers, and Faulkner to Pessimism. Hemingway tried to dodge the problem of values in bullfights and drink without success...