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...Cutten & Sinclair. Inquisitor Pecora's next witness was not so explicit as Mr. Raskob, but the Senators eyed him much more curiously. He was not only the manager of a syndicate which had cleared $12,000,000 without putting up I? but also the biggest stock and grain speculator that the Senators had yet beheld. Spare, white-haired, slightly deaf Arthur William Cutten sat with his hand cupped behind his ear throughout most of the long interrogation on the great Sinclair Consolidated Oil pool of 1928-29. Unsmiling he peered through his spectacles at Inquisitor Pecora whom he could...
Inquisitor Pecora learned that Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair had asked Mr. Cutten to head a syndicate which was to buy 1,130,000 shares of Sinclair Consolidated from the company at $30 a share. At first, when Sinclair was selling on the New York Stock Exchange at $28 a share, Mr. Cutten was not interested but when it later rose to $32 he accepted. Harry Sinclair, Arthur Cutten, Blair & Co. and Chase Securities each got a 22]% participation in the $33,000,000 syndicate, and the balance was allotted among such friendly interests as the security affiliate of Chicago...
With the twentieth century and the war came a closer approach to comprehension. Sinclair Lewis, Dreiser, Mencken, furnished blocks for the building; but none was sufficient architect to complete the edifice. Others were sidetracked, as Irving Babbitt to Humanism, Thornton Wilder to Catholicism, Krutch, Jeffers, and Faulkner to Pessimism. Hemingway tried to dodge the problem of values in bullfights and drink without success...
Sued. Upton Sinclair, writer, and William Fox, onetime cinema producer; by Rosika Schwimmer, Hungarian-born pacifist; for $100,000 damages. Charge: that in Writer Sinclair's indignant book. Upton Sinclair Presents William Fox, she was depicted as an "arch-hypocrite" in approaching Producer Fox with the Peace Ship plan which she also took to Henry Ford.* Died. Reinhold Tiling, 37, German rocket plane experimenter; of injuries suffered when a rocket he was charging with liquid explosive blew up in his laboratory, killing one assistant, wounding another; at Osnabrück, Germany. Died. Charles Hamilton Sabin, 65. board chairman...
...Excerpt (Writer Sinclair quoting Producer Fox): " 'A lady called on me and said she was Mrs. Rosika Schwimmer, and she asked me the following questions: ''How would you like to have your name on the front page of every newspaper of the world? How would you like to have your name discussed at every dinner table? How would you like to be the most talked-of man in the history of the world? How would you like to sell twenty times more pictures than you do now? ... I have a plan. I have chartered a boat...