Word: sinclairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Authentic? When a premier "explodes." speaking his real mind incautiously to a journalist, his henchmen have to tidy up. Thus, after the late, great Premier Nikola Pashitch of Jugoslavia "exploded" to Correspondent Dorothy Thompson (now Mrs. Sinclair Lewis) it was denied not only that he had spoken as quoted but that he had ever seen her in his life. Last week the Italian Foreign Office called II Duce's statements as quoted by the Daily Express "so obviously absurd as to be unworthy of an official denial...
...Offer for Richfield. James A. Talbot, onetime chairman of California's Richfield Oil Co., and two other former high executives of the company last week spent their fifth week in jail, serving for grand theft. Had they picked up a paper they might have read that Consolidated Oil Corp, (Sinclair-Prairie combine) was offering $18,000,000 par value 6% preferred stock for Richfield, which has been in receivership for 17 months. If the deal is acceptable to Richfield bondholders and the consolidated 6% stock is issued, it will probably sell to yield the same return as Consolidated's present...
Last week the Oil Scandals of the Harding Era passed finally into history. Swept from the docket of the District of Columbia Supreme Court in a five-minute session were the remaining three conspiracy indictments against the three principals- Albert Bacon Fall, Harry Ford Sinclair, Edward Laurence Doheny. Their dismissal was requested by Atlee Pomerene, special government prosecutor, on the ground that the charges had already been tried in earlier criminal cases. Before making his request, Lawyer Pomerene conferred with President Hoover...
Harry Ford Sinclair, now chairman of Consolidated Oil Corp., was in Los Angeles on business. Thomas James Walsh, relentless investigator of the oil leases, still serves as Montana's Senior Senator...
Consolidated. William Roy Carney, owner of 3,825 shares in Prairie Pipe Line Co., last week brought suit against Consolidated Oil Corp., the big new combine formed by Harry Ford Sinclair to include his companies and the Prairie group, asking for its dissolution. Carney also asked for a receivership. Last week at the new company's first stockholders' meeting, Chairman Sinclair announced the company was ''in the black...