Word: patrons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went to Paris, entered the Paris Conservatoire, studied more composition, more violin, composed extensively and had his compositions widely performed. Today, at the age of 56, Enesco is almost as familiar a figure to the Parisians and the Viennese as to the Rumanians, who regard him as their musical patron saint...
...London last week famed Economist John Maynard Keynes, often quoted as President Roosevelt's economic patron saint, drew a distinction between the public-works program of the New Deal and that which Keynes is advocating in England. Said he: "President Roosevelt's policy, which was nevertheless very useful so long as it was pressed and saved the U.S. from grave disaster, was, of course, not a parallel case. It was largely devoted to improvising a system of relief and preventing a collapse of credit and general insolvency. Plans for increased capital expenditure on housing, public utility services...
...farther, say that he is a great one. Certainly his works are better known and more widely appreciated than those of any other artist in history. Three weeks ago, his Mickey Mouse created a minor government crisis in Yugoslavia. Last year, as "Miki-san," he was Japan's patron saint. In Russia the works of Disney are appreciated as "social satire," depicting the "capitalist world under the masks of mice and pigs." The late George V, it is said, would not go to a cinema performance unless it included a Disney film...
Died. Kate Sturges Buckingham, 79, Chicago art patron, philanthropist; of heart disease; in Chicago. Of Miss Buckingham's numerous gifts to Chicago, most spectacular was $1,000,000 she gave in 1927 for the Clarence Buckingham Memorial Fountain in Grant Park, which she endowed...
...year. With the showmanship which has put Mr. Marshall's glittering laundry depots all over town, he organized a 55-piece band which he dressed like Indians. He bustled around to his influential friends in Washington and persuaded them to attend games. Vice President Garner became a constant patron and fan of Fellow-Texan Baugh. Washingtonians enthusiastically pack-jammed Griffith Stadium every Sunday the Redskins were at home. Owner Marshall's $85,000 deficit turned into a prospective $20,000 profit...