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...Decked out in gold, blue and maroon uniforms, they filled every hotel room in town, overflowed into Canada across the river. Some had to sleep in parked Pullmans. All over the city were Wartime Salvation Army and Knights of Columbus huts. The society of the 40 & 8, inner sanctum of the Legion, had brought its French freight car, symbol of the organization. Mascot goats, Gila monsters, rattlesnakes, dogs, skunks, burros were displayed everywhere...
...days later Beaverbrook papers stirred all Britain with a triumphant report of doings the night before at St. Stephen's Club, a Conservative sanctum just across the street from Parliament where history has often been made. With a brewer, Colonel John Gretton, in the chair, 44 Conservative M.P.s were announced to have signed the following manifesto to the Conservative party whips...
...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...
...suppose that the vast host of students who make up my unseen audience will want an explanation for my long and continued silence. There have been several reasons why I couldn't oblige you and my publishers with my works of erudition. In the first place my Sanctum in Lowell House tower of late has been far from the haven of peace I hoped it would be. Recently rumblings of a high table reached my attentive ears. I followed up this matter in the hope that I might pass on to you something of value. I was thwarted, not through...
Simon & Schuster in the fall will present all fiction titles at $1. Unlike Doubleday. Doran books which will be in no respect inferior in quality to their present offerings, Simon & Schuster will economize by issuing their Inner Sanctum titles in paper covers, will provide facilities to bind permanently any copies returned to them for the purpose by purchasers...