Word: sentinel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exemplify later characteristics. For in just such fashion have Partners Howard and Scripps and General Manager William Waller Hawkins set about "cleaning up the territory" wherever there was one newspaper too many. Not counting merged properties they now have 25 newspapers. Sometimes, as in Akron (Times-Press), Knoxville (News-Sentinel), Memphis (Press-Scimitar) they have bought. Elsewhere, as in Des Moines, Norfolk, Terre Haute, Sacramento, they have moved out. For Scripps-Howard, no cluttered fields...
...Milwaukee, out of a star-chamber divorce hearing walked a Mrs. Annette Seyfert and her lawyer, into camera-range of Photographer Leland M. Benfer of the Wisconsin News and Sentinel. Mrs. Seyfert had hysterics. The lawyer "assaulted and battered" Photographer Benfer. Mrs. Seyfert went to court and secured an injunction restraining the News and Sentinel from taking or publishing her picture. The News and Sentinel girded their loins for a great "freedom of the press" battle. To the newspapers' disappointment, the court granted a motion of Mrs. Seyfert's lawyer to drop the case...
...Monitor, was called the first meeting of a New Hampshire editors' Committee of Seven (only four were present) to tackle the job that had staggered many a commission, many a tax expert in the past decade. Present was bustling, go-getting Chairman Harry Chase Shaw of the Keene Sentinel. He alone was fired by a belief that a committee of journalists could discover new economies for a State so thrifty that it spent last year only $15,000,000, nearly half of which was on highways.* Present also was shrewd, cynical James Langley of the Monitor & New Hampshire Patriot...
...Allen and Benedict Arnold wrangled profanely as to who was to command. They landed under the Grenadiers' Battery at Fort Ticonderoga. As the clear sky reddened into the day the American troopers, drawn up in three ranks, marched up to the British fort's sally port. The red-coated sentinel's fusee missed fire. The invaders pushed headlong and shouting into the walled parade ground...
...Also of the Duluth Herald, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Toledo Blade, Newark Star-Eagle, Milwaukee Sentinel...