Word: sinclairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...believe Sinclair was guilty of the charge. I don't believe he agreed to pay Fall anything before he got the lease. It may be that after Sinclair did get the lease, Fall got some money from him by the argument that he had favored Sinclair with the lease...
...Scene. In his last harangue to the jury, Lawyer Littleton quoted Shakespeare on the subject of "a good name" until he even made Oilman Sinclair snuffle and dab his eyes. Sinclair grasped Lawyer Littleton's plump hand when he sat down. Sinclair's wife and mother sobbed softly. When the jury returned from its deliberations, Sinclair stood up. Littleton remained seated. The Sinclair ladies had withdrawn to a corridor...
When the jury-foreman mumbled two words instead of one, Sinclair's strained face burst into a grin. He pumped his counsel's arms...
Senator Nye said: "This is emphatic evidence that you can't convict a million dollars in the U. S. under the order that now prevails. The Supreme Court has got the number of this whole gang, and in the minds of the American people, Sinclair stands convicted...
...Engaged. Sinclair Lewis, flayer of babbitts, Baptists and Methodists, to Dorothy Thompson, daughter of a Methodist preacher, Berlin correspondent of the New York Evening Post. They plan to marry in London in the middle of May, to honeymoon in an automobile. Novelist Lewis was recently divorced from his first wife. Miss Thompson divorced her first husband last summer...