Word: sinclair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...SINCLAIR MARTIN Ancon, Canal Zone...
...money from the State to go on a vacation. The next Oklahomans heard of him, he and his family had settled down to a life of wealth on a half-million dollar estate at Glen Cove, L. I. Having been for a time personal attorney to Oil man Harry Sinclair, he became the head of Oklahoma oil interests valued at $70,000,000, helped organize Middle States Oil Corp., gambled in oil stocks. His bub ble broke when Middle States went into receivership. The courts investigated, dis covered that the firm's books had been shipped to Paris. Oklahoma...
...start her next picture (Queen Christina). Also signed up for one prizefight picture was Heavyweight Challenger Max Baer. Still addicted to all-star casts, MGM was ready to release Dinner at Eight which contains almost every performer on the lot except John Barrymore's macaw. RKO promised Sinclair Lewis' Ann Viewers. It would also tackle Of Human Bondage, Somerset Maugham's long-neglected but deeply moving story of a cripple. Fox announced it had bought the rights to Music in the Air, planned a series of shorts made from old nickelodeon cinemas. Paramount ballyhooed Mae West louder...
...Author. Though he is much younger (32) and better-looking than Sinclair Lewis (48), Glenway Wescott is almost as birthplace-ridden. In the beerless era, his public farewells to his native State helped keep the U. S. reading public Wisconsin-conscious. He has defined the Middle West as: "A place which has no fixed boundaries, no particular history; inhabited by no one race; always exhausted by its rich output of food, men, and manufactured articles: loyal to none of its many creeds, prohibitions, fads, hypocrisies; now letting itself be governed, now ungovernable." Sprig of an old U. S. family with...
Nine years have passed since Montana's grim-jawed Senator "Tom" Walsh, before a breathless audience that packed the big marble caucus room of the Senate Office Building, hammered out the questions & answers which sent Harry Sinclair to jail for contempt, put Albert Bacon Fall behind bars as a bribe-taker. Nine years have made the Oil Scandal investigation ancient political history. But its drama, its sensationalism, its clash and color of personalities were recalled by Washington observers who searched for something with which to compare the Senate's investigation of the House of Morgan...