Word: sinclairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sinclair Lewis, Edward W. Bok, Eugene O'Neill were among the judges. Seven hundred Negroes were the contestants. The awards were the Amy Spingarn prizes for Art and Literature in a contest fathered by The Crisis. Last week in Manhattan the awards were made. The first prize winners...
Said N. J. State Geologist Henry B. Kummel: "It's all bunk. . . . There's no such thing as a successful machine to locate oil. If there were, it could be 'sold to Sinclair or Standard Oil for a million dollars in five minutes...
Married. Mrs. Guinevere Sinclair Gould, second wife of the late George Jay Gould, to Viscount George St. John Brodrick Dunsford, eldest son and heir of the Earl of Midleton; in Montreal...
...except as to part of the evidence of fraud. In the Doheny case, there was undisputed evidence that Mr. Doheny had made a loan of $100,000 in cash (carried in the black satchel) to Secretary of the Interior Fall when the Doheny leases were under consideration. In the Sinclair case, the only admitted payment to Fall was one of $25,000 in Liberty Bonds made after the latter had left office. The Government tried to establish that Fall had also received several hundred thousand dollars in Liberty Bonds which were the profits made by Sinclair in another transaction...
...Soviets have continued to invite the investment of American capital in Russia, in much the same way as the fly was invited to walk into the spider's parlor. Oil operator Sinclair went to Russia, saw?and returned again to the U. S. Others have followed suit. No one doubts the splendid natural resources of Russia, but the resourcefulness of the Soviets in commandeering foreign capital has been such that U. S. capitalists have literally become gunshy...