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...usually a bore. What happens is that a group of 100 or more reporters gather in the White House press room, stand around chatting with each other until thoroughly exhausted. Thus reduced to a state of total psychic subservience, they are ushered into Franklin Roosevelt's private sanctum. Here the President, comfortably tucked in under a massive desk and surrounded by a background of secretaries and Secret Service men, sits flourishing his cigaret holder. The correspondents gather closely around the front of the desk trying politely to look as though all this were a marvel they had never seen...
...photographers. He got no farther than the anteroom, however, for the facial reaction of the conferring labor-men was enough to convince their aides that the Senator, though still the head of the A. F. of L.'s pressmen's union, was not welcome in the inner sanctum, and he was soon sent...
...Semi-annual meeting to elect officers will be held at 4 o'clock in the Sanctum. Very important. Monthly dinner...
...destruction with a loss of 49 lives. Month ago when three of Gromov's countrymen made a spectacular flight from Moscow over the top of the world to Vancouver (TIME, June 28), he wanted to do better. He and two other airmen were ushered into the Kremlin sanctum of Joseph Stalin, who was flanked by Defense Commissar "Klim" Voroshilov, Premier Molotov and other Red bigwigs...
...giggling ladies of a certain age risked their lives riding across the ruffled waters of Chesapeake Bay aboard a small tender. The Senate Ladies Club and a collection of wives of the Cabinet and of ex-officials (among them Widow Woodrow Wilson), were off on a jaunt to that sanctum of male Democratic leisure, the Jefferson Islands Club some 20 miles southeast of Annapolis. They had a look through the rambling clubhouse, traipsed over the 34-acre island on which it stands and viewed the Club's 136-acre duck-hunting preserve. After a jolly luncheon at the clubhouse...