Word: patronized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Robert Weeks deForest, 83, Manhattan art patron, charitarian, president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Russell Sage Foundation, the Welfare Council of New York and the National Housing Association, vice president of the American Red Cross, official in many another philanthropic organization; of heart disease after a long illness; in Manhattan. A Yale graduate, he practiced law in Manhattan, married Emily P. Johnston, daughter of President John Taylor Johnston of Central Railroad of New Jersey, became general counsel, director and vice president of the corporation. With his wife he collected Early American furniture for many a year, presented...
When prolific, peace loving Franz Joseph Haydn closed his eyes and died in 1809, all Europe reverently mourned him. In Vienna the admiration of two men expressed itself strangely: a jailer and the secretary of Prince Nicholas Esterhazy, Haydn's patron, bribed a gravedigger to spade open the grave, break the seal of the coffin, hack off for them the dead composer's hulking head...
...death of George F. Baker Harvard has lost one of its greatest benefactors, and the Business School has lost its patron. Though not a college man himself, Mr. Baker always took a keen interest in the educational world, and his gifts to Harvard have been among his largest...
...Author. Thomas Stanley Matthews, 30, has a chin that sticks out from under a nose, eye and brow that might have belonged to St. Paul, patron saint of his preparatory school (Concord, N. H.). Whittling little verses hard as black walnuts is an old pastime of his. Once he wrote...
Again Bismarck. To crush every challenge to his power Chancellor Bruning, as soon as the Reichstag adjourned, went straight to his patron and got Old Paul to sign the most drastic decree ever issued by a German President...