Word: patrons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fine ignored his old patron, Senator Duff. He did not call on him, telephone him, or write. Grundy's policies became Fine's policies. Soon Fine was in a pitched legislative battle with loyal Duff Republicans over his proposal to saddle Pennsylvania with its first state income tax-a measure loudly endorsed by Grundy's man Owlett...
...himself. Every hamlet has a statue, or at least a bust, of El Benefactor, every public building an inscription proclaiming his beneficence. "Only Trujillo cures you," says the inscription on a hospital. Hundreds of towns, streets, buildings have been renamed after Trujillo, his father, his mother, and his patron saint, Rafael. In an unequalled burst of impudence, he renamed the oldest city in the New World (founded by Bartholomeo Columbus, brother of Christopher, in 1496): Ciudad Santo Domingo became Ciudad Trujillo...
...most famous of all summer theatres in America is the Cape Playhouse at Dennis. Known in the past for skilled performances by its patron Gertrude Lawrence, the playhouse has grown in popularity, and this season's selections completely justify its superior reputation...
With Ste. Cunegonde as their patron, the Grey Nuns founded an asylum in Montreal's St. Henri tenement quarter in 1895. The grim, grey stone building was a haven for orphans and old people. The aged, living out their days on $25-a-month government pension checks, were lodged in bare upstairs rooms in the western side of the building; the children lived in the east wing...
Since then, V.M.I. has had a more peaceful history, even though its sons have not. One of its first instructors, now the patron saint of V.M.I., was General Stonewall Jackson (who led the cadets to Richmond in 1861). During World War II, 4,000 of V.M.I.'s 6,000 living graduates were in uniform, and 57 of them rose to general-officer rank. Among V.M.I. alumni now on the Korean front: Lieut. General Lemuel C. Shepherd, commander of the Fleet Marine Force in the Pacific; Lieut. General Edward M. Almond, commander of the X Corps; Major General Clark...