Word: patronizers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. George Dupont Pratt, 65, son of the late Charles Pratt who made a fortune in Standard Oil; of pneumonia; in Glen Cove. L. I. Patron of many a public cause, he collected works of art. served ably as New York State Conservation Commissioner, helped found the Boy Scouts of America, develop Saratoga Springs...
...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...
Married. Count Louis-Charles Pineton de Chambrun, 59, French Ambassador to Italy, great-great-grandson of Lafayette;* and Princess Marie de Rohan-Chabot Murat, biographer, art patron, brilliant hostess; in Rome...
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...
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...