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Word: sinclairs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Borah with his characteristic "set the world on fire" spirit has undertaken more than he can finish. His great campaign to redeem the fair name of the Republican Party has netted a mere twentieth of the sum necessary to repay Mr. Sinclair for his donation to the "Keep Cool with Coolidge" camgaign...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BACK PAY | 4/7/1928 | See Source »

...ruling by Justice Jennings Bailey of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia that the Fall and Sinclair cases be separated, Fall's case to be postponed indefinitely, Sinclair's to be tried beginning April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Sidespouts | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

...departure of Sinclair's lawyers for El Paso to take Fall's deposition for the defense. The gist of the Fall statement was expected to be the old story that it was Edwin Denby, the Harding Navy Secretary and not Fall who persuaded President Harding to transfer Teapot Dome from the Navy to the Interior Department, a transfer to which Fall says he assented "reluctantly and only at the instance of the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Sidespouts | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

...small, snug Berlin flat of Sinclair Lewis was devoted, for the afternoon, to cocktails, beer and tea. The guests, including famed Rosamond (The Miracle) Pinchot, toasted diversely in all three beverages a petite and pretty black-haired woman who would soon be off adventurously to Moscow. She was Dorothy Thompson, the clever, penetrating Berlin correspondent of the New York Evening Post and Philadelphia Public Ledger, which are owned by Sateveposter Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis. As she sat, nibbling an olive from the depths of her cocktail, Miss Thompson (divorced) looked pleasantly incapable of delving into Soviet Russia and returning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sovietdom Penetrated | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

...nights after the small, snug tea Dorothy Thompson looked even less the curt, mannish newshawk which some imagine her as she danced, in a low-cut gown, with Sinclair Lewis at a smart Berlin night bar. Before the week was out, however, she was indubitably in Moscow and remained there during the celebration of the tenth anniversary of the founding of the Bolshevist regime. The exhaustive report of petite correspondent Dorothy Thompson has now reached the U. S. in its entirety and appeared in the papers which she serves. No sooner was it off the press, however, than a similar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sovietdom Penetrated | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

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