Word: patronized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mexican painter to satirize English-speaking traditions, spiritual, educational and academic, while forcing on the college the extremely tiresome traditions of an alien and somewhat abhorred civilization of the Toltec-Aztec cults. . . . The spectacle of New England students being expected to revere Tezcatlipoca, the Toltec divinity who was the patron of college students, with side glances of horror possibly at Huitzilopochtli, the war god . . . is probably one of the most amazing if not amusing spectacles ever presented to American college life. . . But all this is a thing apart from the main satire in which Quetzalcoatl's divine attributes by contrast...
...into the breach last week. Instead, fingering his Old Etonian tie, the husband of Lady Diana (The Miracle) Manners arose from the Government bench. In his own right Alfred Duff Cooper, M. P., is Financial Secretary at the War Office and a special protege of Conservative Leader Baldwin. When Patron Baldwin was being attacked with special savagery by the Press of Viscount Rothermere, Protege Duff Cooper publicly declared that "Lord Rothermere hasn't got the guts of a louse!" (TIME, March 23, 1931). Last week he turned with scorn no less withering upon James Maxton...
...officially extant under his Dictatorship, the Fatherland Front. Last week Dr. Schuschnigg decided that the Chancellorship was enough for him and with alacrity permitted Vice Chancellor Prince von Starhemberg to assume the title of Leader. Together they announced that as soon as possible they will visit Benito Mussolini, longtime patron of the Austrian Dictatorship. Meanwhile last week Chancellor Schuschnigg received correspondents for the first time and wobbled in his state ments toward something which looked like an effort to replace Dictatorship by Coalition...
France. Recognizing Italy as the patron of Austrian independence, French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou called in Italian Ambassador Count Pignatti, told him France was ready to act with Britain and Italy in case of need. Premier Doumergue to the Austrian Government: ". . . Odious attempt. . . . France is firmly attached to maintenance of that independence...
...plane roared away Premier Mussolini, longtime patron of the Dollfuss Dictatorship, stepped into his motorcar and sped to Rome. There he issued orders which galvanized the Great Powers (see p. 14), mobilized 140,000 Italian troops to guarantee the independence of Austria, took steps to break with Adolf Hitler...