Word: sinclairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Secretary of the Interior; by the U. S. Government to recover $158,127 in back taxes plus $77,198 penalties, on monies (including a $100,000 bribe) unreported in his income tax returns but proven to have been received by him from Oilmen Edward Laurence Doheny and Harry Ford Sinclair...
...delivering oil to retailers. Since dissolution of the Standard Oil trust, Pierce Petroleum has not done well. With four of its five refineries now too obsolete for use, it is not equipped to supply its many bulk and service stations in the U. S. and Mexico. Last week Sinclair Consolidated decided Pierce's distribution system would be a valuable addition to its own. offered to buy it. Said Chairman Harry Ford Sinclair: "This is one of those deals that are equally good for buyer and seller.'' Probably equally pleased by the deal was Samuel Untermyer, reported...
...succeeded in voiding the Teapot Dome and the Elk Hills naval oil reserve leases as fraudulent, convicted Albert Bacon Fall of taking a $100,000 bribe from Edward Laurence Doheny. Important witnesses became fugitives in Europe. He failed to convict Doheny or Harry Ford Sinclair of conspiracy, though he did send Sinclair to jail for contempt of court. He was a harddriving, hard-working prosecutor who dug up new evidence in the oil scandals and integrated it to convince the public, if not District of Columbia juries, of gross wrongdoing...
Said Novelist Sinclair Lewis (Main Street, Elmer Gantry) at a luncheon in Springfield, Mass.: "A writer will work two or three years on a book, make $40 out of it, and then plunge quickly into two or three more years' work on another book. This kind of pluck reminds me of the chap who asked a lawyer for his daughter's hand. 'You work,' said the lawyer, 'for Blank & Co. What are your prospects for promotion?' 'The very best in the whole office,' said the young...
Author Upton Sinclair, 51, was born in Baltimore, educated at Manhattan's College of the City of New York, Columbia University. He has been married, divorced, remarried; has one son. He has founded: the late great Helicon Home Colony, Englewood, N. J. (Utopian colony) ; Intercollegiate Socialist Society (now League for Industrial Democracy); American Civil Liberties Union of California. He has been Socialist candidate: for Congress (N. J.); for Congress, Senate, Governor (Calif.). Fond of suing for libel, he does not always win. Author Sinclair Lewis, when a Yale undergraduate, admired Author Sinclair, left college to take care of Author Sinclair...