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...predecessor and patron, Pietro Cardinal Gasparri, Vatican Secretary of State under two popes for 15 years, framer of the Lateran Treaty between the Italian state and the Vatican, gave the young Cardinal his blessing, then retired to his stately villa (a present from Pope Pius) where he can sit in the sun, busy himself for the rest of his life with canonical law. By order of Il Duce, every public building in Italy was flag-draped to celebrate two simultaneous Catholic milestones; the first anniversary of the Lateran Treaty, the eighth anniversary of Pius XI's Pontificate...
...announced that on March 19, festival of St. Joseph, Patron of the Universal Church, he would celebrate a solemn mass of expiation, propitiation, reparation, for Russia's sacrilege, would make special appeal to Russia's ancient protectors, St. Basil, St. Nicholas, St. Cyrillus, St. Therese. He asked all Christians to join him, offered confident assurance: "Divine providence on the moment designated by it will prepare to give the necessary means to repair the moral and material ruins of those immense regions, which constitute a sixth part of the whole universe...
...them last week Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera changed its policy. began a series of Wagner matinees in which, for the first time in 30 years, the Ring will be given uncut. Not yet have starting times been announced but they are bound to hurry many a patron's luncheon for Die Walküre, unedited yet allowing for only average intermissions, takes approximately four and a half hours to perform, Siegfried four and three quarters, Gotterdammerung five hours or more...
...however, plenty of time for relaxation, which he divides between a home on Park Avenue, and another in Leipzig. Riding, music, are his hobbies; generosity his outstanding characteristic. To satisfy his riding urge he keeps a string of horses in Manhattan. He is said to have been the patron of the violinist Benno Rabinov. His spending takes the form of lavish entertainment, maintenance of a hospital in Leipzig, and now, donations to his company...
...made Alien Property Custodian. One of his acts was to confiscate German chemical patents and sell them to the Chemical Foundation (of which he is head) for the fostering of the U. S. chemical industry. In 1919 he was awarded the Priestley medal "for being the greatest lay patron of chemistry." Later, criminal proceedings were started against him for the sale of the German patents, but he was exonerated...