Word: sinclairism
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...Wallace, editor of The Herald of Sauk Center, Minn., the town which furnished the original for Gopher Prairie in Sinclair Lewis' novel, Main Street, called on Mr. Coolidge. Speaking to reporters, Editor Wallace said: "Main Street may be slow and has its prejudices, but it's strong for a square deal. . . . New York is the biggest small town in the country...
...Wild" appeared to be the favorite among his novels; Lord Bryce, with "Modern Democracies," Thomas Hardy, with "The Dynasts," William Allen White, who owed his place to the vogue of his tale of "A Certain Rich Man," Louis Hemon, with his Canadian story, "Maria Chapdelaine," Ernest Poole, May Sinclair, Hamlin Garland, Zona Gale, and Rabindranath Tagore...
...accountant for the Committee presented a report on what officials of the Federal Government had traded in oil stocks of the Sinclair and Doheny companies, Dec. 1, 1921, to Dec. 21, 1922, the period in which the oil leases were made. Harry M. Daugherty and seven Congressmen were on the list. Mr. Daugherty's transactions took place in October, 1922, and by them he made $543.50. His account, once in his own name, was changed to "W. W. Spaid, No. 4" on the day news of the Sinclair lease was given out. Most of the transactions by others were very...
...usually be safely assumed that the kind of story which appears on the front page of large metropolitan newspapers is the kind of story in which newspaper readers are interested. But the persistent appearance of Messrs. Sinclair, Doheny and Fall in large black headlines arouses one's curiosity as to whether the dailies know after all, what the public wants. Even divorce reports become a trifle stale after the first two weeks; the Teapot Dome has occupied the center of the stage in one guise or another for two months...
Owen J. Roberts and Atlee Pomerene, special counsel for the Government, took train from the Capital and reached Cheyenne. Harry F. Sinclair and his lawyers also went west. In the Federal District Court of Cheyenne, Messrs. Roberts and Pomerene asked a temporary injunction to restrain the Mammoth Oil Co. from drilling or operating wells on Teapot Dome. They alleged that the lease to the Mammoth Co. was illegal, 1) because it rested on an in-valid Executive Order of President Harding transferring control of the naval oil reserve to the Department of the Interior; 2) because it was executed without...