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...Sinclair Lewis, on a debating tour with Author Lewis Browne (This Believing World), was interviewed in Spokane by a girl reporter, gave her an earful. Said he: "I went through the fifth grade and I think that is sufficient." When she soberly recorded this in the Spokesman-Review, Lewis (Yale A.B. '07, Litt.D. '36) stomped into the paper's city room to raise the roof. The girl reporter fled in tears as Lewis blatted: "My dear young child . . . you should have known . . . My God . . . I've been called nine kinds...
Blue eyes gleaming, Harry Ford Sinclair, 67, posed for the press photographers in his vast paneled Manhattan office...
...check for $1,500,000 that had not yet quite left the hand of Mexico's Ambassador to the U.S., Dr. Francisco Castillo Nájera (see cut). In the heart which other oilmen think pumps oil instead of blood, was the knowledge that once again Sinclair Oil Corp. had struck a gusher while the rest of the industry struck rock...
When Mexico expropriated all U.S. and British oil properties back in 1938, tough old Harry Sinclair suspected that the old days were gone forever. After an appropriate wait, while the State Department harrumphed and other U.S. oil companies stood on their legal, unenforceable rights, he made his own direct deal with Mexican realists. For $8,500,000 on the barrelhead, plus enough crude to net Sinclair a tidy profit, Mexico could have the whole Sinclair properties with no legalistic strings attached. Last week's check from good Don Francisco was the final payment...
While Harry Sinclair has his "soap" (his favorite word for cash in the bank), Standard thus has lost in both pride and purse. Meanwhile, to add insult to injury, it looks as if the British-whose original stake in Mexico (mainly Shell's) was estimated at more than that of the U.S.-may get back into booming Mexico. While the British Foreign Office still maintains a correct and haughty silence about the principles of expropriation, the oil industry is buzzing with rumors that British oil companies may make a realistic new deal to go in and operate their former...