Word: patronized
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...salesman, Adman Albert D. Lasker, was using his skill to lure $3,000,000 out of Chicago pockets. With the same thunderous eloquence with which he nominated Herbert Hoover for President in 1932, beetle-browed Lawyer Joseph Scott whipped Los Angeles on toward a precise $3,094,805. Active patron of Philadelphia's campaign for $3,752,000 was onetime Senator George Wharton Pepper. Milwaukee wanted $1,113,248 and big, hearty President Michael Joseph Cleary of Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. was out to see that it got it. Johns Hopkins' President Joseph Sweetman Ames kept after...
Died. Edwin Sidney Broussard, 59, onetime (1921-33) U. S. Senator from Louisiana; of a heart attack; in New Iberia, La. Onetime friend and patron of Huey P. Long, Broussard found himself beaten for re-election by the Long machine in 1932, protested loudly and futilely to the Senate...
Engaged. Elizabeth Dole, 23, daughter of James Drummond Dole, founder chairman of Hawaiian Pineapple Co. and aviation patron (Dole Flight, 1927); and David H. Porteus, Harvard Law student...
Died. Baron Edmond James de Rothschild, 89, Paris banker, patron of art, science, sport and Jewry, last of the grandsons of old Mayer Amschel Rothschild who founded the great five-branched banking dynasty; of old age; in Boulogne-sur-Seine, near Paris...
...opposition) are without arms "the situation is hopeless." Nevertheless all the Cristeros have not lost hope. In Mexico City 40,000 Catholics blocked traffic for hours in "mute protest" against persecution of their Archbishop. In Magdalena, after local officials seized a 150-year-old statue of San Francisco Xavier, patron of the district, they gathered angrily in such numbers that troops were called to watch them...