Word: patronized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...favorite of King George, often dining at Buckingham Palace. Dr. Benes, champion of the League of Nations, has long been first in peace, now seems likely to be first in war as a Skoda supersalesman, remains first in the hearts of Czechoslovaks along with his venerable friend and patron, permanent President Thomas Garrigue Masaryk...
...year term and he is not eligible for reappointment.* And it was a notable show of independence for Mr. McCarl to be critical of TVA, for the soft-spoken Comptroller General with his flowing Windsor tie was once secretary, close friend and political follower of TVA's best patron. Senator George William Norris of Nebraska...
...Italy. In Leonardo's time, besides the heir Alphonso, whom Lucrezia Borgia married after she had had her third husband murdered, there were two d'Este daughters, Isabella and Beatrice. Leonardo was working at the splendid court of Ludovico Sforza, later duke of Milan, when his patron married Beatrice, younger and more beautiful of the two. Between her marriage at 16 and her death in childbirth at 22, Leonardo saw much of her and painted two of her husband's mistresses. Two years after her death he left Sforza and stopped at Mantua where...
Because More was a lawyer, his canonization took place in St. Peter's last Sunday on the feast of the patron of lawyers, St. Ives.* By happy coincidence it was also the feast of St. Dunstan, chancellor, Archbishop of Canterbury and politician (died 988). In the U. S., Catholics celebrated the occasion with special masses and meetings, including one in Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral attended by many a judge and lawyer. In New Orleans, nine descendants of Sir Thomas More listened to the canonization by radio, envious of a tenth, Bernard Gonzales Carbajal, merchant...
...week in San Francisco docked Baron Henri de Rothschild who is neither a spectacle like his cousins nor a banker like his ancestors. Most justly famed of living Rothschilds, he is a practicing physician who researched cancer and founded free milk stations in Paris, an essayist and playwright, a patron of the arts who built a $2,000,000 theatre in Paris, a perfumer, big-game hunter, winemaker. At the San Francisco pier to meet him on the return half of a round-the-world trip were his auto-racing Son Phillippe and his daughter-in-law. Son Phillippe...