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When newshawks heard of the party, they called up Judge Elbert H. Gary, chairman of U. S. Steel. Did he know-about it? Yes, he did. For the matron was his wife, the house his house: the Gary mansion, sanctum sanctorum of U. S. steelmen...
...when the walls were dedicated. Another had many happy times here that he will never forget, but the last is barely interested. He is almost late for a class, and what does this place mean anyhow? To the first two of these men these old walls form the sanctum sanctorum of their college memories. They will continue to make their annual pilgrimages as long as she stands. It is a source of joy for them to bring their family with them as they relive the happiest days of their four years at Harvard...
After being permitted to glimpse the inner office of the young financial genius (as indicated, Douglas in plain clothes) and being impressed by large transactions in stock sales made through a selection of innumerable telephones which surround the man, we watch Miss Daniels drawl her way into the sactum sanctorum in order to win a bet. The young wizard is properly upset and so is the financial world. The woman plays with the inexperienced man. The man ends up by following her on board a curious trans-Atlantic liner. A travelling library on the subject of amours, Douglas' valet, mixes...
...Herr Hitler had spoken as he did in the sanctum sanctorum of German justice at Leipzig, into what inflammatory bombast might he not burst when the new Reichstag convenes on Oct. 16 next? Herren Hindenburg and Briining know as well as anyone else that the German Republic was actually proclaimed "not in written but in spoken words" from a window of the Reichstag by one Philipp Scheidemann, Socialist deputy who had neither "right" to do so nor "reason" to expect success (except the shouts of the mob). What has happened once can happen again...
...face to face, last week, in the Lateran Palace, an austere and gloomy pile, presented to the papacy 16 centuries ago by the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great. Successive pontiffs resided in the Lateran until removal of the papal residence to Avignon (1309 A.D.). It contains the Sanctum Sanctorum, Chapel, "Mother Church of Christen-dom"; reached by a'flight of steps which no Catholic, not even the Pope, may ascend otherwise than on his or her knees...