Word: benefactor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little man. Bodyguards with their Tommy guns at the ready followed him to his customary concrete bench against the sea wall. There, opposite the statue of himself and within sight of the monument reared in his honor, His Excellency, Generalissimo Dr. Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina, Honorable Chief of State, Benefactor of the Nation, President and Dictator of the Dominican Republic, held his nightly court, with his favorites clustered around...
...election (as usual), Trujillo is backed by the Dominican Party, to which everybody in his Government, everybody in his monopolies, and nearly everybody who wants to do business, has to belong. Last time (May 1942), the Benefactor ran on the other party's ticket too. This time he waved his wand, and two phony opposition parties were created...
Harvard Hall's present site was once occupied by one of the most ancient of the College buildings, which also bore the name of the College's first benefactor and namesake. But in the year 1764 a smallpox epidemic broke out in Massachusetts, and a prudent General Court moved to Cambridge to escape the worst of the plague. In the midst of the winter vacation, old Harvard Hall suddenly caught fire, and despite the efforts of a night-shirted Governor and Legislature it burned to the ground, consuming the greater part of the library including all save...
...least 16 of the members. Touching off the walkout, it appeared from the statements of several of the musicians was the announcement of a five dollar dues fee at last Wednesday's reharsal which will be required from each man unless a large donation comes through from an anonymous benefactor...
...later allowed to join the Serbian Army. In 1924 he went to Rome to study for the priesthood. Four years after his ordination, King Alexander unexpectedly approved him as successor to the Archbishop. He took office in 1937. No sycophant, the new Archbishop repeatedly urged his royal benefactor to abolish the royal dictatorship. Later, Archbishop Stepinac lashed out at the Nazi "master race" idea and condemned the execution of hostages as "inhuman and anti-Christian...