Word: bestowers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Honored. King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy and his son Crown Prince Umberto: by Pope Pius XI: with the Supreme Order of Christ, highest decoration the Pope can bestow. The order was established as a pontifical decoration by Pope John XXII in 1319. King Vittorio Emanuele and Crown Prince Umberto were the fifteenth and sixteenth recipients since Pope Pius IX revived it in 1878. Last recipient (1928) was Peru's onetime President Augusto B. Leguia whose son's name last week came in shame before the U. S. Senate...
...Muriel Vanderbilt Phelps put on her ocelot coat and went out on the lawn of her estate at Middletown, R.I. to bestow the prize (a live turkey) for a charity treasure hunt; to squeal in glee with 500 other socialites while a horde of urchins from Middletown, Newport and neighboring villages chased and caught two small, frightened, buttered pigs...
...political ideal has always been to encourage private enterprise, to bestow upon it the earned rewards of brains and labor, and to keep open the door of opportunity. Here, I believe, is the key to material success. Here is a political ideal worth guarding and fighting...
...started in 1873 by Conductor Theodore Thomas. It is a colossal affair, involving many amateur singers (610 grownups this year, 703 school children), besides the Cincinnati Symphony and imported soloists. The programs are meticulously prepared and the performances attended by social pomp corresponding to that which Manhattan and Chicago bestow on their opera. Cincinnati newspapers devote columns to describing the costumes of local dowagers and debutantes...
...livelihoods change. Boss Tweed (1861-72) went in for peculation and bribery. Boss Murphy (1902-24)-brought the city contract racket to its juiciest fruition. Nowadays construction bonding is the most remunerative of Tam-many-controlled activities, and judgeships are the most luscious appointment plums which the Hall can bestow...