Word: sinclairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington jail, Oilman Harry Sinclair had hoped to hear the Preakness results over the prison radio (see p. 12). But the radio would not work. He had to wait for the newspapers. When he read them he discovered that one of his horses, Patroness, had won a preliminary race...
...great national oil restriction program (TIME, April 8 et seq.) opened another seam last week when Oklahoma operators decided that the sky was the limit on Oklahoma production. Prairie Oil & Gas and Sinclair Oil Corp. were listed as anti-restriction leaders, with the approach of the automobile and gas-consuming season as underlying motive for increased production. Oklahoma has had a proration agreement with an umpire (one Ray Collins) to enforce it, but oilmen turned baseball-men, cried Kill the Umpire, abolished the proration system...
...guiltless. California has not reconsidered their case, which is now before Governor C. C. Young for a pardon. To propagandize in their favor a national "Mooney-Billings Committee" has been formed. Among its members are: Harry Elmer Barnes, Clarence Darrow, John Dewey, Glenn Frank, Alexander Meiklejohn, H. L. Mencken, Sinclair Lewis, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise...
This volume includes Ring Lardner's stories, old and new, testifies to his long-standing importance as a reporter of the American scene. His dramatic personae, ranging from prize-fighter to debutante, cop to jazz-writer, "just folks" to "the best people," offers more complete a panorama than Sinclair Lewis. His argot, quite as accurate as Ernest Hemingway's, is never mannerism...
Author Stribling, sometimes called the Sinclair Lewis of the South, began his writing career with stories for Sunday-school publications. He passed on to plotty melodramas for paper-pulp magazines, rose to heights in Birthright and Teef-tallow. Strange Moon drops back to the pulp level. Possibly it is a resurrection from his serial days. Or perhaps it just reflects Author Stribling's habit of writing in a reclining position...