Word: patriarchalism
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Though head of the clan, Bernard is not its patriarch. That is Ellis, 76, board chairman and only survivor of the original Gimbel Brothers. Bernard's brother Frederic, a vice president, has made newspaper trouble for the family in a small way; breach-of-promise suits have taken him twice to court, though never to the altar. But the only real rift in the clan was between Bernard and his cousin, old Ellis' brilliant son Richard...
...Patriarch George Washington Carver, who hobbles benignly about Tuskegee's campus, is an artist. But he is better known as the greatest Negro scientist alive, the man who pioneered new uses for Southern agricultural products, developed 285 new uses for the peanut, got 118 products, including vinegar, molasses and shoe blacking, from the South's surplus sweet potatoes. In his laboratory he and his assistants also make paints and dyes from the red Alabama clay, the oil of the Alabama peanut, with which he paints the natural phenomena he sees around him: birds, fruit, flowers, mountain vistas...
Dressed in a seamy old coat and patched cotton-sack apron. Patriarch Carver puttered about his memorial museum at Tuskegee last week, unpacking, dusting and hanging his life work as an artist. One of his paintings, a larger-than-life-size picture of a yucca plant, was half a century old, got honorable mention at Chicago's 1893 World's Fair. Of it, he crowed delightedly: "I painted that from my memories of the Western plains. My school-teacher tried to copy it. She failed. She forbade the other pupils to copy it, because she couldn...
...Patriarch Sergius of the Orthodox Church and his clergy may well rejoice if President Roosevelt can procure more religious freedom in Russia. The number of churches in Russia has declined nearly 90% since the Revolution. In 1917 the country had 70,000, plus several thousand synagogues. In 1933, when Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff went to Washington to arrange for U.S. recognition of Russia, he said there were 40,000. Last August, Russia announced that it had 8,338 churches, mosques and synagogues for its 192,695,710 people...
...GOPatriarch Lowden, who was a great Governor of Illinois and missed the Presidency by a hair in 1920, was a name to conjure with in days gone by. To go along with him on the statement, 14 other potent signatures of a slightly younger vintage were rounded up. Then Patriarch Lowden, who once was a brave Midwestern anti-isolationist, handed out an isolationist blast saying...