Word: patronizers
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...Virgin Islands squabble had now been inflated to the point where it required direct intervention by the President of the U. S. Insignificant was the actual issue beside the major intra-Administration battle it had provoked. At Secretary Ickes' throat were not merely Senators Tydings and Pat Harrison, patron of T. Webber Wilson, but the entire Senate afire with stored-up resentment at the Secretary's blunt, tactless refusal to play political ball. Likewise ranged against their fellow Cabinet officer were "Generals" Farley and Cummings. But the dogged little Secretary of the Interior stood undaunted against the field...
...Philharmonic-Symphony expertly through the Star-Spangled Banner, Wagner's rousing overture to Die Meistersinger, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, three dances from De Falla's Three-Cornered Hat and, with Violinist Albert Spalding, the Mendelssohn Concerto. As usual, aged Adolph Lewisohn, donor of the Stadium and a patron of the concerts, made a little speech. So did peppery, music-loving Mayor Fiorello Henry LaGuardia. Hooted and booed by radicals on the hard 25¢ seats, the son of a onetime Army bandmaster retorted: "Music hath charms even for the savage, but not for the ill-mannered...
...favorite of King George, often dining at Buckingham Palace. Dr. Benes, champion of the League of Nations, has long been first in peace, now seems likely to be first in war as a Skoda supersalesman, remains first in the hearts of Czechoslovaks along with his venerable friend and patron, permanent President Thomas Garrigue Masaryk...
...power industry in a fine show of hindsight set out to reform its trade associations. In the public's mind the old National Electric Light Association was linked with unconscionable private propaganda and the name of the domineering Midwest utilitarian. Invoking the shade of their more saintly patron, the powermen reconstituted their body as the Edison Electric Institute. Leadership passed to the great power companies of the so-called Morgan-Drexel-Bonbright group-a shift calculated in those days to inspire nothing if not complete public confidence...
...Italy. In Leonardo's time, besides the heir Alphonso, whom Lucrezia Borgia married after she had had her third husband murdered, there were two d'Este daughters, Isabella and Beatrice. Leonardo was working at the splendid court of Ludovico Sforza, later duke of Milan, when his patron married Beatrice, younger and more beautiful of the two. Between her marriage at 16 and her death in childbirth at 22, Leonardo saw much of her and painted two of her husband's mistresses. Two years after her death he left Sforza and stopped at Mantua where...