Word: patronizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...belong to a party of revolution, completely futile because of its own factional revolutions. Assigned to China by the Red International of Labor Unions in 1927, Comrade Browder returned to New York in 1929, married a blonde Russian. In 1930 his party mentor and patron, General Secretary Foster, was ill and out of commission. So Comrade Browder took over the job as U. S. Communists' strategist-in-chief...
...discovered they spoke the same language, and hastened to outline to her his ideas for a workers' paper. Of Editor Maurin Editor Day says: "Peter is only doing what the great St. Peter called for - working for a new heaven and a new earth, wherein justice dwelleth." Patron of the Catholic Worker is St. Joseph, the working-class husband of Christ's Mother. A statue of him stands in the window of the Catholic Worker headquarters on Manhattan's dirty lower east side. Miss Day, Mr. Maurin and a dozen others live in this "House of Hospitality...
...redeeming features, but the degree to which certain publications have gone out of their way to "educate" the public in this matter is out of all proportion to the cooperation asked for by civic leaders. Indeed, the hue and cry has been such that even the most casual patron of local newsstands may well be under the impression that the country is undergoing a major epidemic, and that he himself is in direct danger of contamination...
Master. As free and furious as they come is John Marin, the acknowledged master of living U. S. water-colorists and an artist almost certainly great. Last week his old friend and patron, Alfred Stieglitz, opened an exhibition of Marin paintings done during the last two years. To discerning critics they were simpler and more exciting than any previous Marin exhibition...
...newly appointed Counselor. This will depend largely on the Counselor. He will have to use a maximum of care not to frighten sensitive Yardlings by appearing to be another banana skin on the royal road to history. He must be a father-confessor. He must be a patron saint. He must instruct his brood in what to read without letting them guess that it is assigned, and must conduct a serious class in an atmosphere of gay camaraderie. This may possibly be difficult. There will be those who will prefer to glue on their vencer of culture with a brush...