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...PARADE-Upton Sinclair- Farrar & Rinehart...
...Upton Sinclair, hack writer extraordinary to the Socialist Cause, once wrote dime novels for a living. Now he writes them in all seriousness. Like his literary cousins, the late Jacob Abbott and Horatio Alger, Sinclair is apt to make his heroes into preposterous prigs. In The Wet Parade he has out-prigged himself: his hero is a conscientious Prohibition agent...
...Saratoga Springs, N. Y., Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair sold his entire string of 25 racehorses for the disappointing price of $81,300. He still retains his crack breeding farm at Jobstown. N. J., where lives Zev, winner of the 1923 Kentucky Derby. Reason for the Sinclair sale: Last month Saratoga race stewards looked askance when the Sinclair entry in the Burnt Hill handicap was discovered to be poisoned. They declared Sinclair's trainer responsible, but not culpable, for the horse's condition, barred the Sinclair stable from entering horses in races overnight...
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...
Through the long years when his liberty was at stake Harry Sinclair never neglected his company. He travelled with a staff of secretaries and assistants; received reports, laid plans, dreamed probably as much about developing Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corp. as he did about keeping out of jail. Beside his brother through these humiliating times stood Earle Westwood Sinclair, president of Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corp. since 1921. Trained as a banker in the Southwest where oil is the basis of most wealth, Olde Brother Earle came to know the petroleum business as well as his own. While Brother Harry was packing...