Word: patronism
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...have been glad to know that his successors managed to win by 47,000 votes, after an expenditure of about $600,000 which was only two hundred thousand more than the Democrats spent. One who was certainly glad to know it was Contractor Louchheim, Mayor-elect Wilson's patron, who was supposed to have retrieved all the money he put up on his man by collecting $125,000 worth of election bets...
...offered to be artistic director, help raise money. Backers for the first reorganized season were Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co. which controls the building, scenery, lights; the late George Lytton (Hub clothing store); Banker George Woodruff; Lawyer George Haight; Harold Fowler McCormick. who is always a willing patron for opera in Chicago. Deficit that first season was only $12,000. Last year it ran up to $78,000, discouraged everyone but irrepressible Paul Longone. Lawyer Haight announced then that times were unpropitious to undertake another season, withdrew a large part of the support and the name "Chicago Grand Opera...
...rival watchmaker who claimed his invention. He became the protégé of a minor palace official, purchased the office of secretary of the royal kitchens, which paid a small salary but opened opportunities for graft, even more opportunities to collect valuable information. He probably killed his patron, although the charge was never proved. He certainly married his patron's wealthy widow soon afterward. But at her death he was unexpectedly left poorer than he had ever been...
...Charles-Edouard Jeanneret. The traditionalists were outnumbered three to one by excited modernists" and lion-hunting socialites, because M. Jeanneret, 47, better known under his professional name of Le Corbusier, has had more effect than any living man on the development of modern architecture, and has become the patron saint of a whole school of ardent practitioners who write tomes on the subject of Corbusierismus...
...Laval, achieved one of the outstanding triumphs of post-War diplomacy last week, and a Gallic jest. After enjoying a repast in one of Paris' best restaurants and paying like the very devil for it, with 10% "for service" on top, M. Laval was approached by the fawning Patron who murmured, "Perhaps M. le Président would pen a precious thought in our Golden Book...