Word: sanctum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Steel Corp. last week had reason to wish that a minister's son named Talcott Williams Powell had never become editor of the Scripps-Howard Indianapolis Times and gone prowling out of his sanctum in search of news stories. Fortnight ago when a general steel strike threatened, 34-year-old Editor Powell led four of his newshawks to Gary, Ind., U. S. Steel's private stronghold in the Midwest. He wanted to observe the exact layout of the steel mills and to chart lines of communication for covering what looked like a major industrial...
...vote of the Executive Board, at a meeting held in the Sanctum last night, the members of the Harvard CRIMSON decided unanimously to assume the debts of the financially prostrate Harvard Lampoon, humorous undergraduate publication, and purchased for an unannounced sum the rights to publication and the building of the organization...
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...
...hitched his wagon to a vanishing star. He said he wanted the World-Telegram to be what the World had been under the late great Joseph Pulitzer: New York's great, crusading, liberal newspaper. Last week there was cause for jubilation in Publisher Howard's orientally splendiferous sanctum. The paper's first great crusade, the New York mayoralty election, had been an unqualified success. Fusionist LaGuardia had been swept into office by a huge majority (see p. 16). Tammany's control of the municipal government had been smashed for the first time since the World helped...
...order to provide social recreation for Students in the Summer School and their friends, the Crimson Summer Supplement will give a dance this Friday evening, July 28, in the Sanctum of their building, 14 Plympton Street. Music will be provided by a six-piece orchestra from Boston which will play from 9 until 1 o'clock...