Word: patronizers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...refer you to the King's record in Rumania? Founder of the Boy Scout movement, Institute for Physical Education, Federation of Sports, Royal Cultural Foundation, new Rumanian Youth Movement (0. E. T. R.), printing shop for popular educational books, builder of churches, patron of art and music, silent and generous contributor to all charities, and above all a devoted father to an only...
...Germans living in Switzerland that no German and no Swiss could be found to do this deed. The instigator himself had to do it-the Jew! "You, Wilhelm Gustloff, enter the ranks of our nation's immortal martyrs!" concluded Adolf Hitler. "Gustloff will be the patron saint of all Germans living abroad. . . . We do not choose murderous methods! I must proudly state that our movement has never murdered and has never attacked anyone...
After he had declared Gustloff a patron saint and after Saint Gustloff had been cremated last week, the Laborite Daily Herald of London professed to have learned from Berlin that as soon as the Olympics are over a decree confiscating all property owned by Jews in Germany, and exiling all Jews from Germany, will be signed by Adolf Hitler to avenge Wilhelm Gustloff. This press officers at the Realmchancellory denied...
...that follows is what hundreds of similar farces have taught cinemaddicts to expect, but the gags are new and Director Leo McCarey keeps them sputtering across the screen at firecracker speed. Funniest scenes: Lloyd learning to box from MacFarland's tough sparring partner (Lionel Stander); teaching the dowager patron of a benefit bout how to duck a punch; knocking out Champion MacFarland, whose seconds have accidentally given him a sleeping potion just before the fight. It Had to Happen (Twentieth Century-Fox) is about a group of glossy New Yorkers who exist only in the imaginations of writers like...
...pentecostal "gift of tongues" so that his word was understood everywhere. In his last 20 years this Dominican was believed to have performed 58,000 miracles, or eight a day. He was canonized in 1455. The Dominicans who conduct the Manhattan church were piously pleased to receive their patron's relic. The Very Rev. William A. Marchant, prior and pastor of St. Vincent Ferrer's, estimated the reliquary to be at least 450 years old. But who the "personal friend'' was that brought him this invaluable antique, Father Marchant would not tell...