Word: sinclairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...acting under orders from the Governor. We're ready to stay here in this field 90 days if necessary. Sergeant, take six men and close down these five wells of the Champlin Company over yonder. Lieutenant, take a squad and shut in those Sinclair wells...
...three days 90% of the State's prorated wells had ceased to flow. Oil operators offered no resistance to the Murray order. Not a single shot was fired. So tame was the oil war that two young guardsmen were caught dozing under a Sinclair derrick. But despite martial law, economic law held its ground and the price of Oklahoma oil did not rise above...
...Vermont Historical Society Novelist Sinclair Lewis sent his Nobel Prize for Literature medal "as a permanent loan." Said he: "I hope the gift may serve to indicate my affection for this, my adopted State...
...most conveniently classified by negatives. Says the same critic: "The King Charles's head of psychoanalysis and experiment in genre does not keep continually turning up in her books as they do [sic] in those rather Mr. Dick-like compositions of Mr. Sherwood Anderson for instance." Unlike Sinclair Lewis, she does not bite her country's hand; unlike Edith Wharton (whose example influenced her early work) she casts no nostalgic backward glances toward Europe; unlike Ernest Hemingway, she carries no gnawing fox in her devoted bosom. Her simple, colloquial language obeys the canon of good prose (she rereads...
Died. Frederick Lincoln Siddons, 66, Associate Justice since 1915 and dean of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, presiding justice in the trial of Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair for conspiracy in the Teapot Dome case (TIME. April 15, 1929); of acute indigestion and dilation of the heart; in Washington. British-born, he was a great-grandson of Actress Sarah Siddons, had been urged in his youth to go on the stage...