Word: patronized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...predecessor and patron, Pietro Cardinal Gasparri, Vatican Secretary of State under two popes for 15 years, framer of the Lateran Treaty between the Italian state and the Vatican, gave the young Cardinal his blessing, then retired to his stately villa (a present from Pope Pius) where he can sit in the sun, busy himself for the rest of his life with canonical law. By order of Il Duce, every public building in Italy was flag-draped to celebrate two simultaneous Catholic milestones; the first anniversary of the Lateran Treaty, the eighth anniversary of Pius XI's Pontificate...
After several years as a member of the Sacred Congregation for Extraordinary Affairs, he was sent by his patron, Cardinal Gasparri to Munich, where he pursued the pacific policies of Pope Benedict XV. In 1917 he conveyed the Papal Peace Note to Kaiser Wilhelm...
...still have unquenchable faith in Civil Disobedience," wrote spindle-shanked Mahatma Gandhi, loinclothed, ascetic patron saint of Indian Independence, a month ago. "But if India should have to go through the agonies of civil war or foreign invasion, be sure these are no new things in the history of nations that have struggled for freedom. England has gone through both experiences...
...them last week Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera changed its policy. began a series of Wagner matinees in which, for the first time in 30 years, the Ring will be given uncut. Not yet have starting times been announced but they are bound to hurry many a patron's luncheon for Die Walküre, unedited yet allowing for only average intermissions, takes approximately four and a half hours to perform, Siegfried four and three quarters, Gotterdammerung five hours or more...
...however, plenty of time for relaxation, which he divides between a home on Park Avenue, and another in Leipzig. Riding, music, are his hobbies; generosity his outstanding characteristic. To satisfy his riding urge he keeps a string of horses in Manhattan. He is said to have been the patron of the violinist Benno Rabinov. His spending takes the form of lavish entertainment, maintenance of a hospital in Leipzig, and now, donations to his company...