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This helped get him an ornate nickname: "The Darling of the Gods." But it didn't strain his expanding fortune. In 1921 he and three oilmen, including flamboyant Harry F. Sinclair, founded the Continental Trading Co., a Canadian corporation. Through Continental, the quartet bought more than twelve million barrels of Texas oil for $1.50 a barrel and then sold it to other corporations in their control for $1.75. This gave them a tidy $3,000,000 profit which they invested in Liberty bonds and whacked up among themselves without informing either their stockholders or the Treasury Department...
...library and plenty of money, and fled to France. There was plenty of reason for his flight; Government investigators had discovered that Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall had $230,500 worth of Continental's Liberty bonds, which prosecutors charged had come from Harry Sinclair as a bribe...
...Teapot Dome furore finally died; Harry Sinclair served out a total of nine months in jail (for contempt of court and of the Senate investigating committee), and Fall went to prison, later died in disgrace. Exile Blackmer stayed at his chateau in France. Even World War II caused him little inconvenience. He was technically a fugitive from justice and had no passport, but when France fell to the Nazis the Swiss welcomed him, his money and his third wife "Kaja," a buxom Norwegian opera singer...
Race in the News was published by Atlanta's Southern Regional Council, Inc., one of the South's most effective race-relations groups. Dr. George Sinclair Mitchell, the council's executive director, thought up the idea and collected 1,000 clippings of "racial news" from Southern papers. Then 29-year-old Associate Editor Calvin Kytle of the weekly Calhoun, Ga. Times turned out the booklet...
...Novelist Sinclair Lewis was off for Europe as "guide for a party of one": his brother, Dr. C. B. Lewis of St. Cloud, Minn., taking his first vacation in 46 years...