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...seat in the Illinois assembly. He has never felt that his Republican sentiments required him to admire Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, who labeled Mr. Judah a "silk sock" when the latter managed an anti-Thompson primary campaign. Senator Charles Samuel Deneen of Illinois has been the Judah patron. He introduced the bemedaled* lawyer-soldier to Washington last year and President Coolidge was impressed. Colonel Judah, onetime Assistant Chief of Staff of the Rainbow Division, is a director of the Chicago Title and Trust Co. and an alumnus-trustee of Brown University...
They learned that it had been loaned to the Museum by noted art patron and collector Jacob Epstein*; of Baltimore, onetime street peddler, now a millionaire. His agents had discovered its whereabouts. He bought it at the sale of the owner's estate in France, brought it to the U. S. in August without attracting publicity, without even disclosing how much he had paid...
...confused with famed Sculptor Jacob Epstein (see below). †Not to be confused with noted art patron and collector, Jacob Epstein of Baltimore (see above...
...finished they realized that he had pronounced a judgment as scornful as it was scathing upon a white man who is popularly supposed to be loved by Negroes- Author Carl Van Vechten of Nigger Heaven, long a cat-fancier but lately a collector as well of Negro art, a patron of Negro poets, a frequenter of Harlem cabarets and apartments...
...Chicago, anent the proposed opera house, Samuel Insull, patron, said: "In my absence abroad much was said about the great opera-house plans. This great enterprise already stands completed in the imagination of many. I wish it were all true, but there is still much work to be done and a matter of some $20,000,000 must be provided...