Word: sinclair
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...first blast of criticism was set off by Liberal Leader Sir Archibald Sinclair, big Scottish landowner, Legion of Honor hero in World War I and among Winston Churchill's closest advisers. Mentioned among the ginger groups as a possible Prime Minister because he did a good job as Secretary of State for Scotland in Ramsay Macdonald's Cabinet and yet stands well with the Tories, Sir Archibald demanded a "grand inquest." "I hope," he thundered to an Edinburgh audience, "that it is not too late for craven and irresolute counsels to be suppressed. ... I am amazed...
...worker out of six. One reason for all these headaches to Lazaro Cardenas has been the efforts of expropriated U. S. and British oilmen to maintain a "united front" and refuse to market for the Mexican Government oil they considered stolen from them. Last week Oilman Harry F. Sinclair blithely deserted the united front to make an inside deal with the Cardenas Government...
...Sinclair deal was the personal triumph of Jesus Silva Herzog, general manager of the Mexican Petroleum Distribution Agency, the Government monopoly. He got the Sinclair interests to surrender all claims arising from Mexico's seizure of their properties in exchange for $9,000,000 cash (payable over three years) plus 20,000,000 to 30,000,000 barrels of oil to be supplied by the Mexican Government over a six-year period at a price reputed to net Sinclair a $7,000,000 profit. Jesus Silva Herzog went on to claim that he had sold or was in course...
...chose the review of Sinclair Lewis' latest book, Bethel Merriday, from the March 25 TIME. When we came to class the next day with our assignments we told the name of the book selected, the reviewer, and the magazine from which it was taken...
MEXICO CITY--The usually well-in-formed Boletin Financiero today published "reliable reports" that agreement has been reached by the Mexican Government and the Sinclair Oil Company for settlement of their 25-month-old expropriation dispute...