Word: patronism
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Less than a year later the Auvergnat, diligent in his attendance upon both M. Caillaux and M. Briand, was rewarded by the minor portfolio of Public Works in a Painleve Cabinet which starred Foreign Minister Briand and Finance Minister Caillaux. When Patron Briand shortly came in as Premier he took Protege Laval under his wing, gave him a course in Chamber intrigue as secretary general of the Prime Minister's office, graduated him prematurely in 1926 as Minister of Justice...
Dirty magazines as such are not new. "French" love story magazines have long graced the back rows of newsstands, and there has been a steady market for smoking-car books like Captain Billy's Whiz Bang. But one rarely encounters a patron actually purchasing them, much less reading them on his way home from the office. The new pornography bids for -and has been getting-admittance to decent society along with the Saturday Evening Post and the evening paper. All are vaguely identified with Ballyhoo...
...California. The mining man (John Boles) is the one who sees her off at the station. All this is competently enough put together but, if tested by an emotional seismograph like the "Lie Detector," its graph would be full of dead spots. Shot: Greta Nissen asking her patron to buy her an emerald bracelet...
...Guadalupe near Mexico City. There were noise, dancing, eating & drinking. From all parts of Mexico and Latin America had come 50,000 pilgrims. Ultimately, 100,000 were expected. Indians, mestizos, pure-blooded aristocrats-every class except government (antireligious) officials -were present to do honor to Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe, patron saint of Mexico. With smashing crescendo of clanging bells, electric illuminations, masses, there will be celebrated this week the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. There is an especially composed Guadalupe Hymn. Next year has been officially designated Guadalupe Year. In the archdiocese of Guadalajara, all female infants baptized...
...Slang which H. S. Stone & Co. printed, Clyde J. Newman illustrated. No longer most up-to-date of U. S. slangsters, but wealthy, still unmarried, Author Ade winters in Florida, lives as a gentleman farmer in Brook, Ind. Golfing enthusiast, football fan, he is known as Purdue's patron saint...