Word: patronized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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George is the name of the King. St. George is the patron saint. And St. George's, Westminster, is the Parliamentary constituency in which Buckingham Palace stands. Last week two rival Conservative candidates, a regular and an irregular, contested St. George's in a by-election of the first importance. The real issue, dwarfing both candidates, was the fitness of former Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin to remain leader of the Conservative Party. St. George's is so utterly Conservative that there was no Liberal, no Laborite candidate...
...Presented last week by the Geographical Society of Philadelphia. So numerous are his medals that he lumps them thus: Patron's Medal, 1928, by Royal Geographical Society, for work in Polar regions, culminating in (1928) flight from Point Barrow to Spitsbergen; awarded gold medals by American, Belgian, Danish, Cuban Geographical Societies (the Cuban society last week gave a medal to Georges Claude, French scientist who experimentally generates electricity from the heat differences between the surface and bottom waters of Matanzas Bay); silver medals by German Geographical Society and City of Berlin; gold medal by Norwegian and French Aeronautical Societies...
...shoes out-side a door. Grown slightly more sophisticated, the talkies still employ euphemistic symbolism. In this picture it becomes necessary for an actress (Bebe Daniels) to tell a young man whom she loves that she is the mistress of an older man, his best friend and financial patron. This she does by grasping an armful of roses...
...John ("Aces") Mazza, 20, petty gangster, was murdered in front of an eastside Manhattan cafeteria. In his pocket was found a printed invocation: St. Joseph, Patron Of A Happy Death, Protect Me. ¶The body of John Franzione, who with four companions killed a detective last July and later squealed on them, was found on a Bronx refuse heap. ¶Two detectives followed two gunmen into a saloon on Lexington Avenue. The gunmen held the place up, shot it out with the detectives. Fatalities: Gunman Albert Checchia and Detective Christopher W. Shueing, whose father received the Congressional Medal of Honor...
...Papist!" stormed leading French news-organs of the Left last week at brilliant, bowlegged little General Max Weygand. He is as good a Roman Catholic as was his patron Marshal Ferdinand Foch who used to speak of him as "Max, my spiritual son." Last week as the climax of a long and masterly campaign of military intrigue (TIME, Jan. 13, 1930), General Weygand forced out Marshal Pétain and assumed the office which carries with it supreme command of the French Army. This office has a highly technical title: "Vice President of the Higher War Council." More imposing sounds...