Word: benefactor
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...lacked for private defenders in the U.S. "He can be a charming fellow," one explained recently. "You can get drunk with him, sing songs, swap gamy jokes. The picture isn't all black. He's done a lot of good for the country." El Benefactor Trujillo kept order and paid his debts, the refrain went on, and above all, he was a friend of the U.S. and U.S. business...
...gold plate and fine Lowestoft china. She is a cousin by marriage of Bertie McCormick. She owns fabulous emeralds, pearls and old masters, presides over a luxurious Lake View Avenue apartment, a Wheaton suburban estate, a mansion at Seal Harbor, Me. and another in Miami. She is a generous benefactor of the Chicago Art Institute (her husband Chauncey is president), and a bountiful worker for many charities. The queen, nearly everybody in Chicago agreed, was just right. After all, Athlyn explained, "Mrs. McCormick was a Deering, you know. She's farm implement on both sides...
...Rubi" launched his career back in 1933 with a brief marriage to the spectacular Flor de Oro Trujillo, daughter of Dominican Dictator Rafael ("El Benefactor") Trujillo. Despite their divorce he was named chargé d'affaires in Paris in 1939, and went on to marry, successively, Actress Danielle Darrieux, sometimes called "the most beautiful woman in the world," and Doris Duke Cromwell, "the richest woman in the world." His job also led him to seeming affluence far beyond his official salary of $600 a month. Last week it came to a halt: Rubi got fired...
...Dictator Trujillo, a man of the world, really take umbrage at Rubi's conduct? A likelier explanation might be that Trujillo was simply reminding Rubi that the Benefactor is still the one & only boss. Any public official under Trujillo may suffer an occasional, penitential spell of unemployment; Rubi's turn has obviously come. For a while, he will have to get along without the magic diplomatic passport, will have to let the customs officers of New York, Cherbourg and other way stations muss his socks and shirts. Then, his cafe-society pals confidently believe, he will be restored...
...more important than material welfare or forms of government is the temper of the people. The United Nations, Schumann Plan, Council of Europe and NATO Brinton regards as significant accomplishments in a nationalistic and individualistic climate which has compelled the Communists in France to "represent Communism as a special benefactor of the peasant proprietor and the small shopkeeper." Whether a formidable union of 300 million people with industrial might superior to that of America would really be desirable, is really academic, for Brinton's shaggy simile declares attempts to form a sovereign union in nationalistic Europe "would be like asking...