Word: luck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after a week-end at Lossiemouth, Ramsay MacDonald flew back to London last week with a large bunch of white heather in his buttonhole and posed for his picture in the garden of No. 10 Downing St. Secretary for Dominions & Colonies James Henry Thomas begged a sprig for good luck, so did Stanley Baldwin and the rest. When every buttonhole burgeoned with Ramsay's white heather, shutters clicked at the entire National Cabinet...
They needed luck. To bolster British finances Great Britain had already been forced to draw some $20,000,000 of the $200,000,000 credit raised last fortnight in the U. S. Superstitious Britons watched for the return of a great black cormorant which had appeared from nowhere the afternoon of Aug. 11, just as Britain's troubles were becoming acute, and roosted ominously every night for five nights on the cross atop the dome of St. Paul...
...pluck $120 from the owner of a seaside villa) and demanded $160. The Costa's proprietor did not have that much in his till, but he helped the Cavigliolis collect it from the guests. By now it was getting late. Caviglioli & nephews retreated to the mountains but their luck still held. On the way back they met a party of motorists enjoying a basket picnic. The Cavigliolis collected watches, jewelry, money and the picnic basket...
This first venture, at Kiowa, was lucky. It netted Sinclair $100,000, a nice sum but nothing in comparison to what was coming. By 1909 with luck and judgment he made a million buying, developing and reselling oil lands. Independent, working mostly alone he continued on this line until 1926 when he consolidated seven small companies into Sinclair Oil & Refining Corp. The company grew and prospered apace. Fleets of tankers roamed the seas carrying the name Sinclair. This alert, grinning, hard-headed man's influence was felt in Moscow, Lisbon, Africa, while his company became integrated, rivalled some Standard...
Then came a break in Harry Sinclair's luck, a mistake in judgment. His Teapot Dome lease made in 1922 provoked a scandal which came to light in 1923. For five years a complicated battle raged in the courts. Harry Sinclair faced the bar of a Federal Court five times in those years, always smiling, debonair, sure of himself. His mood changed to dejection one night in May 1929 when he entered the District of Columbia jail to serve six and one-half months for contempt of the Senate and for jury shadowing, charges arising out of his long...