Word: sinclairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trial of Father William J. Burns, the great detective, and Son W. Sherman Burns, ignorance of the son's actions was the father's plea. Their detectives had been hired by Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair to shadow the jury chosen to try Sinclair for criminal conspiracy with Albert Bacon Fall, Harding Cabinet man. Father Burns said he knew nothing about it. When the Washington Herald (Hearst) discovered, and the Department of Justice announced, the shady work afoot (TIME, Nov. 14), it was news to Father Burns-said Father Burns...
...Author, young, obscure, is a poet as well as a novelist, and has spent many years as a student in France. Sinclair Lewis was literary godfather to Parachute...
...father, George, president of the Wiedemann Brewing Co., did not go to jail with him, but paid the U. S. a $10,000 fine. His horse, In Memoriam, remained on his stud farm at Newport, Ky., munching bluegrass. As a three-year-old, In Memoriam outran Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair's swift Zev at the $50,000 Latonia stakes on Nov. 3, 1923. Two weeks later, Zev defeated In Memoriam by a nostril in the most thrilling match race of all time. Today, Zev is eating grass on Mr. Sinclair's farm in New Jersey...
...this sum only three millions were realized. Then the Continental Trading Co. was disbanded. The Sinclair Crude Oil Purchasing Co. (mentioned above as "a third company") bought the remaining contract...
...thin lips over a telegraphic appeal for mercy despatched to him from Berlin by several authors of world fame who have followed with approval the literary flowering of luckless Baron Havatny. Signers of the telegram included Gerhart Hauptmann (dean of German dramatists), Arthur Schnitzler (smartest of Austrian dramatists) and Sinclair Lewis (now residing in Berlin). They appealed to Count Bethlen: "We turn to you in order to say a word for our personal friend and highly treasured colleague, Baron Havatny. We hope your wisdom will save a man such as Baron Havatny from being sentenced merely because, in other...