Word: patronism
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...17th-Century Italian Franciscan is rapidly becoming the patron saint for Allied airmen. He is St. Joseph of Cupertino, who from his eighth year was subject to ecstatic visions. "Frequently," says the Catholic Encyclopedia, "he would be raised from his feet and remain suspended in the air." Hence his designation as the protector of flyers, who now wear his medal on two continents...
Credit managers had a busy weekend, worked several times around the clock freezing past due accounts. When their stores opened this week, they found that they had about 25% fewer able-to-charge customers. Frozen were the accounts of many an old and valued patron. Strange and wonderful were the tactfully worded notices from credit managers to these solvent but delinquent payers...
...Lorenzo de' Medici's. A bearded, bespectacled man of placid temperament and steady habits who had inherited a vast fortune from his father, Standard Oil's Louis H. Severance, he made up for an otherwise uneventful life by making himself Cleveland's most lavish patron of the arts. As a patron, he had a tycoon's audacity...
...Cleveland Museum of Art into shape. He helped found the Cleveland Orchestra. He offered, in 1928, to put up a million dollars to give Cleveland the "perfect concert hall" if other Clevelanders would match him with a couple of million more. When depression caused other Clevelanders to welch, Patron Severance raised his ante to $2,500,000 and Severance Hall was built...
From the walls, tables and statuary niches of Patron Severance's palace had come: Sir Joshua Reynolds' idyllic portrait of The Ladies Amabel and Mary Jemima Yorke; a batch of first-water Rembrandts, including a famed Portrait of a Youth; Flemish Primitive Aelbrecht Bouts's well-known Annunciation; landscapes and portraits by Hobbema, Cuyp, Lawrence, Gainsborough, Turner and Van Dyck; remarkable collections of 15th-Century Italian sculpture, medieval Gothic tapestries, ceramics and an assortment of furniture equaled only in the Rockefeller and Hamilton Rice collections. The late John L. Severance had done his picking & choosing with...