Word: sinclairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sprinkle of rain fell; thunder stamped in Heaven; the webbing went up. 'They're 'rorf," shouted William Gibbs McAdoo, Marshall Field, Knute Rockne, Harry F. Sinclair, Walter J. Salmon, many Elks, Knights, a haberdasher, a sculptor, 75,000 assorted odd fellows and their ladies...
...Department of Justice has changed hands since the days of Doheny and Fall. The writer has referred to the "intense activity" of the Wheeler prosecution as compared with the laxity shown in the Fall, Sinclair, and Doheny trials. The people who were incompetent in these latter cases were not the people who brought about the indictment of Senator Wheeler in Washington. The writer also forgets that the "persecution" of Wheeler showed no laxity in prosecuting Senator Cameron, the officials of the Atlanta Penitentiary, and rum-corrupted attorneys. He is not expected to know of these incidents; the persons prosecuted were...
...intense activity of the Department of Justice in the Wheeler case is all the more unnatural when placed beside its former record in the prosecutions of Fall, Sinclair, and Doheny. In these instances such was the incompetence of the government that no indictment was framed which could hold water, and men whom the whole nation believed guilty went scot-free. Today the man who was responsible for the discovery of their guilt is pursued with ruthless energy. If this persecution is successful Senator Wheeler's political career will be forever ruined. Whatever its outcome, his financial resources are certain...
When glib Mr. Sinclair writes a book, it has no creative value. It is sure to lapse into intellectual dishonesties. For Mr. Sinclair is sorely egocentric. He constantly mistakes vulgarity for strength of purpose and the woes of the world...
...Sinclair is a gifted journalist, if you care for the Hearst variety. He knows the news value of a similarity in the plots of Madame Bovary and Main Street. He knows that it catches the eye?and should pay?to headline "Prayer in Adultery" for his chapter on George Sand; and "God's Propaganda" for an A. D. 300 "review" of the four Gospels...