Word: sinclairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chapel Hill, N. C,, one Harry M. Sinclair,* baseball fielder, ran to retrieve a homerun. As he leaned to pick up the ball from a tuft of grass a small brown snake, of unknown breed, peeked up at him and bit him severely in the hand...
...real oldtime political debate? distinguished Representative Theodore Elijah Burton for the Republican side, opposed by distinguished Lawyer Newton Diehl Baker. Wilsonian War Secretary, last week in their home town of Cleveland. "Tammany . . . Tweed . . . traitorous," said Mr. Burton. "Fall, Sinclair, Denby, Daugherty, Forbes . . . Boss Vare . . . Will Hay's," retorted Mr. Baker...
Senator Borah collected some $7,000 last spring towards repaying the "tainted" money ($160,000) contributed by Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair to the G. O. P. deficit of 1924. But the present G. O. P. would have none of the Senator's "conscience" money. Had any one been robbed but honest Senator Borah, to whom two wrongs could never make a right, some one might have suggested last week that, to restore the theft at Lincoln, an "equalization fee" should be alotted from the "conscience" fund...
...prophesied a terrific philippic knew Roy A. Young. Famed masters of finance have won reputations for taciturnity, austerity. But Governor Young is friendly, cheerful, talkative. He was twitted", last week, about his nickname, coined by the able financial writer for the New York World John F. Sinclair is a northwesterner, familiar with breezy phrases, breezy people. He called Governor Young, "the glad-hand artist of the Federal Reserve." The nickname stuck...
...Leonardtown, Md., sarcastic Senator Caraway of Arkansas twitted Senator Borah about his campaign, earlier this year, to "purge" the G. O. P. of Oilman Sinclair's contributions...