Word: sinclairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Authors Upton Beall Sinclair and Sinclair Lewis are sometimes confused in the casual mind and not only because of their names. As penmen they are stylistic cousins of whom the younger and cleverer-Mr. Lewis-has far surpassed in ability and notoriety his more intellectual and radical elder. Yet when Sinclair Lewis was but a redheaded young yahoo learning at Upton Sinclair's colony, Helicon Hall (Englewood, N. J.), the rudiments of a Socialism which he was later to abandon for a creed 100% egocentric, Upton Sinclair was already a celebrity by inversion, a rebel whose voice of loud...
...passport, leaving Mr. Blackmer in the embarrassing predicament of a "person whose papers are not in order." Mr. Blackmer is urgently wanted in the U. S. as a witness in the coming (October) trial of Albert B. Fall, onetime (1921-23) Secretary of the Interior, and Harry F. Sinclair, oil man, for conspiracy in the famed Teapot Dome scandal. Last May Mr. Blackmer refused to honor a subpoena to return and testify; the passport revocation followed, presumably with the intention of preventing Mr. Blackmer from leaving France for even more distant regions. Not but that...
Should Mr. Blackmer's stay in France be prolonged beyond the date of the Fall-Sinclair trial, set to open in the District of Columbia Supreme Court on Oct. 17, his absence may cost him $100,000. For in 1925 Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana, head of the Senatorial investigating committee which had discovered that it was not oil wells that truth lay at the bottom of, secured the passage of a law empowering the Senate committee to summon witnesses from abroad. Furthermore, the law provided that a person refusing to honor such summons be judged guilty...
...presence has been considered essential to the Government's case by special attorneys onetime (1911-23) U. S. Senator Atlee Pomerene and Owen J. Roberts, in charge of the oil trials. Mr. Blackmer was onetime (1922) an official of the Prairie Oil Co., which, along with Sinclair oil companies, bought from a Canadian oil company 33,333,000 barrels of oil. The Canadian company had bought this oil from the Mexia (oil) companies of Texas. It was claimed that the Canadian company, which made some millions of dollars on the transaction, was a "shadow" or "dummy," concern, and that...
Died. Colonel James William Zevely, 65, famed attorney, at his home in East Hampton, L. I., of pernicious anemia. Despite his great abilities as a lawyer, he was perhaps best known to the U. S. public as "the man after whom Harry F. Sinclair named the famous racehorse...