Word: patronized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...perpetually disagreeable odors. The Washington nostrils might have distended even more, had their owner heard of: 1) a project to sell his effigy painted on imitation leather as a back tire cover for auto mobiles; 2) a Manhattan theatre where a box office clerk had to tell a patron that a cinema called The Hatchet Man (see p. 28) was not about the father of his country; 3) a song called "Father of the Land We Love," written by George Michael Cohan with a cover by James Montgomery Flagg, a copy of which was to be put into every...
...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...
Said New York's Mayor Walker: "If we had a few more Lewisohns and a few less grouches in this city it would be even a happier place." Occasion: a testimonial concert at Hunter College to Adolph Lewisohn, famed philanthropist and music patron. In the course of eulogies of Mr. Lewisohn by Lieut.-Governor Herbert H. Lehman, Lawyer George Gordon Battle et al., it was revealed that a chamber music foundation is being planned by a group of patrons headed by Mr. Lewisohn and including Clarence Hungerford Mackay, Otto Hermann Kahn, Theodore Steinway. Patron Lewisohn declared that he "would...
Meanwhile the rumor persisted that the Metropolitan was so hard hit financially that it might have to curtail its present season or disband in the spring. Banker Otto Hermann Kahn, some said, resigned as board chairman this autumn because he was tired of playing patron. But people who believed that knew little of the Metropolitan's workings. Banker Kahn owns from 70 to 80% of the producing company's stock but, contrary to the impression he sometimes gives, he has never "backed" it in the sense that Mr. & Mrs. Harold Fowler McCormick once backed Chicago's Opera or that Louis...