Word: patronism
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...passing unexpectedly through first reading Sir William Davison's often rejected bill to legalize a thing considered immoral by many of the King's subjects-the charity lottery. "Let us not forget," boomed Sir William in spirited defense of his bill, "that Queen Elizabeth herself was the patron of a lottery...
Marcia Davenport, daughter of Soprano Alma Gluck, stepdaughter of Violinist Efrem Zimbalist, in a notable book published last week tells Mozart's story.* The elder Mozart stalked patrons for his son until he was grown. The family needed money but rings and snuffboxes often paid for 18th Century music. Little, bewigged Mozart sat on the Empress Maria Theresa's ample lap. Once he was permitted to watch Louis XV eat. But with all his genius he never found one large-hearted patron on whom he could depend. He married an amiable, unpractical creature, pregnant or convalescent from childbirth...
This was only one of the eulogies tendered last week at a banquet in Manhattan. Few U. S. college students or alumni have the occasion, or the inclination, to give a long yell for the grandson of one of the college's first patrons. But Colgate University yelled lustily for 68-year-old "Jimmy" Colgate at a banquet celebrating his 50 years of association with the university, as student, alumnus, patron. President Hoover sent a telegram of congratulation. So did Chief Justice of the U. S. Charles Evans Hughes, who went to Colgate for two years. Finance Chairman Myron...
...introduced by Congressman Henry Bascom Steagall of Alabama, chairman of the House Banking & Currency Committee. In the Senate an identical measure was sponsored by Virginia's old, peppery Phi-Beta-Kappa-Dangling Carter Glass. Senator Glass never lets the world forget that he acted as "patron and floor manager" (his own words for the original Federal Reserve Act when it passed the House 19 years ago), that he still considers it very much his own legislative child. The Glass-Steagall bill was born at the White House. Behind it loomed the shadowy outline of a printing press whirling off millions...
...Francisco needs either one patron like William Andrews Clark Jr. who supports the Los Angeles Philharmonic or the unified backing of all the city's music enthusiasts. For years petty cliques have hindered the development of the San Francisco orchestra. In 1915 when bald, bearded Alfred Hertz went there to conduct, friends of social, correct Henry Hadley, his predecessor, went so far as to accuse him of being pro-German.- Hertz had a good friend in Jacob Bertha Levison, president of the Musical Association which sponsors the orchestra, but there were potential patrons who could not forget that Jews...