Word: patronism
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...finest medieval style, will be in memory of Father Burton's brother Caspar, who died of War wounds. With this and a cloister under construction, the whole will eventually cost $500,000. But to Boston the most interesting donor to the Cowley Fathers monastery was their late patron ess, a terrifying little woman who gave the $25,000 St. Francis House in which the Fathers have been living. She was Mrs. John Lowell ("Mrs. Jack") Gardner...
Before embarking on his yachting trip, England's Edward VIII had stopped in Salzburg, snapshot the land marks, heard no music. Elsa Maxwell, funster for the unimaginative rich, was there. So were Steelman Myron Taylor, Music Patron Harry Harkness Flagler, Mrs. Woolworth Donahue, Secretary of Labor Frances Perhins, Singers Ganna Walska and Feodor Chaliapin. Long before the season opened, 11,316 U. S. visitors had made hotel reservations, bought $200,000 worth of concert and opera tickets. Last week with the Salzburg season half over, hawkers were doing a thriving business in cushions for the hard Festspielhaus seats, trade...
Left. By the late Steelmaster John Long Severance, Cleveland's great patron of arts & music; to the Cleveland Art Museum: whatever its officers choose from his $2,140,252 art collection, which includes Rembrandt's Portrait of a Youth, Sir Thomas Lawrence's Daughters of Colonel Thomas Cartaret Hardy, Van Dyck's "Sir Thomas Hanmer; in Cleveland...
...noncompetitive civil service examination, or 2) a postal employe with a civil service rating, likewise after a noncompetitive examination, or 3) the person making the highest mark in an open competitive examination conducted by the Civil Service Commission. To qualify, a candidate must have been a bona fide patron of the post office in question for at least one year, must be under 67 unless he is already a postal employe or a war veteran. Commented Wyoming's Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, co-author of the defeated June bill: "I feel confident that this advance...
...Others have lived in the love of their own people; but who, like this man, has drunk his sweetest cup of welcome with another?'' But the editor's favorite Great Character was Napoleon: "A Royalist, a republican, and an emperor; a Mohammedan, a Catholic, and a patron of the synagogue, a traitor and a tyrant, he was through all his vicissitudes a Man." When Editor McGuffey clipped from the German Press a bloody, harrowing account of a railway wreck, called it The Crazed Engineer, his publishers objected, cut it from posthumous editions...