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...door of the Washington jail swung open hungrily last week to admit Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair. The U. S. courts had found him guilty of contempt of the Senate for refusing to answer questions in its 1924 Teapot Dome investigation. Now he was paying for his stubbornness by a 90-day sojourn in a "common jail" with pick pockets, wife-beaters, smalltime crooks...
Recess. Last week the Supreme Court recessed for a fortnight to catch up on its calendar, preparatory to adjournment early in June. During this term (from October) four notable cases have been decided by the court: 1) Great Lakes water diversion; 2) Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair's contempt of the Senate; 3) New York's 5? Fare; 4) Canadian immigration. Three notable cases pending are: 1) Oilman Sinclair's contempt of court (jury shadowing); 2) St. Louis & O'Fallon railway valuation; 3) presidential pocket vetoes...
With increasing satisfaction Marion, Va., realizes that Sherwood Anderson is no longer the sinister, black-haired hobo whose face the advertisements used to show marked by unspeakable passions, by furrows and pouches suggesting unmentionable artistic orgies. Sherwood Anderson has become a plump, benign, grey-haired citizen, radiating goodwill. Unlike Sinclair Lewis, baiter of smalltownsmen, Sherwood Anderson has said: "I like people just as they are. I do not want to change...
...Pulitzer awards are not officially announced until May. Dr. Richard Burton, chairman of the prize jury, let slip the news about Author Oliver's book in a lecture on "Types of Contemporary Literature" at the University of Minnesota. Upton Sinclair's Boston would have been a winner, he said, but for its "socialistic tendencies...
...racehorses of Harry Ford Sin clair, jail-bound oilman, are not to be barred from Maryland race tracks this year. So announced Chairman James A. Latane of the Maryland Racing Commission, last week. For a time last year Maryland barred Sinclair horses "to keep the game clean." Nathan F. Leopold Jr., once of Chicago, from now on of Joliet, Ill., Penitentiary, co-murderer in 1924 of small Robert Franks, is to get all or part or none of the income from a trust fund of $50,000 left by his father for his "care, maintenance or benefit," as decided...