Word: patronism
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...Tugwell. Although only six Democrats voted against confirmation, there was many another who at heart distrusted the dapper young professor's theories and would have cast a contrary vote if it would not have been construed as a vote of no-confidence in Dr. Tugwell's patron, Franklin D. Roosevelt. But Senatorial motives mattered little to Rexford Guy Tugwell. In his office after the confirmation, he beamingly received congratulations and that night one of his friends, Novelist Sinclair Lewis, gave a party to celebrate the victory. Then the handsome, happy professor entrained for the West, to attend...
...very long chain of luck that gave $150,000 to a Bronx, N. Y. restaurant chef named William Meringer. He had a wonderful recipe for hasenpfeffer. An anonymous patron had a ticket in the Irish Hospital Sweepstakes on Golden Miller. The patron went to the restaurant, ordered hasenpfeffer, ate three plates of it, called in Chef Meringer and gave him his ticket. Golden Miller won the Grand National (TIME, April...
...mistress (Alice Faye) contest for his affections are standard cinema fictions. Nonetheless, Spencer Tracy's smooth, poker-faced performance and Edwin Burke's colorful direction give Now I'll Tell by Mrs. Arnold Rothstein more authority than most such melodramas. Good shot: Golden, to conciliate a patron who has lost $40,000 in his gambling rooms, flipping a penny for double or quits...
Portland, Ore., pure in morals if not in grammar, last week put into effect a new ordinance for places of amusement: "No floor entertainer shall be permitted to in any way come in physical contact with any patron." Object: to keep night club hostesses out of the laps of businessmen...
...painter of "lolling odalisques in diapered interiors." "When we say that his emotion is but another name for bourgeois well-being and that a fraction of it, equally distributed, informs his designs, we have said all that can be said of the content of his painting." "Scratch a patron or a collector, and you find a dealer." Modern Art brings forward for public inspection Mr. Craven's sincere belief and hope that an "explicitly native art" is now growing in the U. S. He finds indications of it in Muralist Thomas Benton (see cut), "one of the few living...