Word: patronism
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...Havana on a brief fishing trip, tried to appear in U. S. eyes as much as possible like President Hoover, returned to his Palace, waited. At the State Department "grave concern" about the Cuban situation was admitted for the first time by Statesman Henry Lewis Stimson. But, quoting his patron and one of his predecessors as Secretary of State, Elder Statesman Elihu Root (in whose law office he was apprenticed), Mr. Stimson intimated that there will be no "intermeddling or interference" in Cuba by U. S. Marines. If it becomes necessary to send them this will be "the formal action...
...life and his artistic integrity for nearly 90 years. While yet in his 20's he had done the Pieta of St. Peter's, the David of Florence, had become a national figure and a centre of dissension. When he was a boy, Lorenzo de' Medici was his patron, and his intermittent allegiance to that family was finally commemorated in the dreamy Medici Chapel of San Lorenzo. Six Popes employed him. An ever-unfinished undertaking for a tomb of the first plagued him half his life. For four years he worked on the Sistine Chapel ceiling...
...counteract this tendency, to preserve the Republic from a dictatorship, that the new party has been formed. In its first proclamation it called itself the Staatspartei (Constitutional Party). Claiming the late great Gustav Stresemann as its patron saint, and two of Stresemann's biographers on the list of its organizers,* the Staatspartei "stands on the ground of the Federal Constitution and honors the national flag;" i.e. it is opposed to the restoration of the black, white, red, tricolor of Imperial Germany. All this is understandable and praiseworthy. What is surprising is the man who was chosen leader...
...great and good man, a bishop and a martyr, St. Januarius is not the Patron Saint of Earthquakes, but of Naples. Tortured and beheaded by the Emperor Diocletian, his skull and two phials containing his blood (see cut) are among the most sacred relics of Naples Cathedral. Eighteen times a year the phials of blood miraculously liquefy. The skull has a reputation for stopping eruptions of Mt. Vesuvius. While the faithful prayed in the square last week, dour Cardinal Ascalesi, splendid in scarlet soutane and sash, held high the gold-encased skull, blessed 20,000 worshippers...
...Haraldsson (995-1030) similarly obtained dominion, made all Norwegians Christians, reigned with cunning and cruelty 14 years. Then discontented nobles forced him to flee, killed him when he tried to return. But after miracles were worked at his tomb, his misdeeds were forgotten. Olaf the Warrior became Norway's patron saint, canonized...