Word: sinclairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Smart Berliners delighted to entertain last week their favorite among living U. S. novelists, Sinclair Lewis. Snooping newsgatherers followed Novelist Lewis to a very small, very select little dinner. Who was the swarthy man with whom he talked so much...
...intermittently engaged the attention of the U. S. public. Their names are Teapot Dome and Elk Hills and their resemblance is close enough to make them almost twins. Teapot Dome, however, resulted from a collaboration between onetime (1921-23) Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall and Harry F. Sinclair, oilman; Elk Hills proceeded from an association between Mr. Fall and Edward L. Doheny, also an oilman. So they have constituted two distinct, though parallel cases which in 1923 spread a sticky mess over the Harding Administration and cheered many Democrats with the happy thought that the next President would...
...only the Teapot Dome portion of the oil investigation remained unsettled. The Government's civil suit to recover the property is still pending before the U. S. Supreme Court. The Government's criminal suit against Messrs. Fall and Sinclair is to be tried on Oct. 17 in the District of Columbia Supreme Court. When these two decisions should be reached, it appeared that the Oil Scandals would then become definitely a matter of history...
...conviction for conspiracy, could change the cause of action to bribery and thereby secure a new deal with the old deck. But unless they can reverse the Justice Hitz decision on the "double jeopardy" theory, the future will see a Fall-Doheny as well as a Fall-Sinclair criminal trial. The oily half-brothers appeared to have been united again...
...first Mrs. Sinclair (1900-1911, divorced) was Meta H. Fuller; the second (1913-), Mary Craig...