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...world. She scarcely approved of Sister Anna, who spent much money, married successively Count Boniface ("Boni") de Castellane and the Due de Talleyrand; or smart Brother Frank Jay twice-divorced, who dabbled (and still does) in French gambling palaces; or her late Brother George Jay, whose second wife (Guinevere Sinclair) bore him three children before he married her in 1921. Helen Gould stayed by her father, who trained her in finance, took her in his confidence before he died of tuberculosis...
Last week, Prairie Oil & Gas Co., Prairie Pipe Line Co. and Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corp. united to form a half-billion dollar oil company. There was little news in the mere event, for the merger had been brewing for almost two years (TIME, Jan. 27, 1930). Nor was there much news in the company's size, for so gigantic is the oil business and so gigantic the constituent parts that it became only sixth biggest (see table). Nor was there anything but corporate dullness in the name which the new corporation took- Consolidated Oil Corp...
...cheered Harry Ford Sinclair. For the merger was the realization of his ambition to dominate a countrywide, integrated oil company. Ever since he began buying up and reselling oil lands many years ago with never-varying success he has looked forward to a unit like Consolidated. Harry Sinclair is of that second generation of oil pioneers who found the fat plums unknown to the Standard Oil Trust when they began to study synclines and anticlines. And his legion of friends were happy, for he had vindicated his reputation as one of the best-liked...
Arrowsmith (United Artists-Samuel Goldwyn) is a faithful and brilliant facsimile of what most critics consider Sinclair Lewis' best novel. Compressed to two hours, the story of young Dr. Martin Arrowsmith (Ronald Colman) starts when he meets Leora Tozer (Helen Hayes), proposes marriage when they are sitting in a cheap restaurant near a mechanical piano. The story continues in South Dakota, where Arrowsmith tries to practice medicine, cures cows as a sideline. Arrow-smith's sojourn at an elaborate research institute-where Author Lewis reverted to his familiar flair for making fools of characters who were fools...
Harry Ford Sinclair, 55, denied he was or ever had been an officer of Rio Grande Oil Co, Authorities such as Standard Statistics were surprised. They had listed Mr. Sinclair as Rio Grande's board chairman ever since newspaper announcements of last April, which were never denied. Oilman Sinclair's denial last week swiftly followed a receivership action brought by creditors of Rio Grande's chief subsidiary, Rio Grande Oil Co. of Texas...