Word: sentinels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...guidance in the crisis Franklin Roosevelt relied last week on as extraordinary a brace of diplomats as any U. S. President has ever had on a serious diplomatic battlefield. His favorite sentinel abroad is Ambassador to France Bill Bullitt: bald, slim, elegant, as close a student of all Europe as was that other rich Philadelphian, Dr. Benjamin Franklin. By placement more important now is autonomous Joe Kennedy in London: hearty, gum-chewing, tough-minded as Bismarck. Both have achieved in almost unprecedented measure the confidence of the Governments and the peoples to whom they are accredited. Neither France nor Great...
...months prior to the opening, more than 100 actors, including such local celebrities as Octogenarian Ella H. Goodrich, who does Whistler's Mother, and ebony-skinned Janitor Felix Nelson (Vedder's The African Sentinel), rehearse their tableaux as religiously as any Oberammergau Passion Player. This year, with the Assistance League of nearby Santa Ana offering $200 in art prizes, and the buildup of the local Chamber of Commerce corralling 1,500 spectators into every performance, The Festival of Arts at last got on a paying basis. Jubilant Director Ropp hoped to net $4,000, looked forward...
When he was 20 he married Elinor Miriam White and two years later entered Harvard for a final wrestle with culture. Two years were enough; he quit and began to teach. He also made shoes, edited a weekly paper (the Lawrence, Mass. Sentinel), finally became a farmer...
These papers are headaches: Milwaukee News-Sentinel, Atlanta Georgian (Sunday American), Chicago American (which lost $500,000 last year) and Herald & Examiner. Badgered by the Guild strike (which, however, appeared near settlement last week), the Herex has lost $500,000 in advertising since December. For years the Herex has been able to pay interest on its bonds only because it collects $750,000 a year rent from the American. But its Sunday edition sells 1,000,000 American Weeklies. Joe Connolly is working desperately to save Chicago for Hearst, and his success or failure may determine whether Hearst remains...
...Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Toledo Times and Blade Los Angeles Express, Milwaukee Sentinel, Newark Star-Eagle, Brooklyn Standard-Union, Duluth Herald and News-Tribune...