Word: sponsor
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These negotiations are made necessary by the termination, next January, of the trade relations between the two countries as expressed in the Treaty of Versailles. Their importance may be considerable. On both sides are men who avowedly sponsor a great steel trust. In France's Lorraine are found Europe's greatest iron deposits; in Germany's Ruhr Valley are the greatest deposits of coal. An agreement to abolish the duties upon iron ore entering Germany and upon coal entering France would have but one effect: France and Germany would be able to undersell their foreign steel competitors...
...given after each election. As penalty for failure in these duties he attached a $5,000 fine, one year in prison, or both. This proposition was such that none of the unco-good Senators could oppose it. Senator Robinson, Democratic Floor Leader, assisted in framing it. Senator Edge, sponsor of the bill, thought the publicity clause had no place in a postal salary measure. So he refrained from voting on the amendment. The vote showed 55 Senators in favor of the Borah amendment, and none opposed. In the passage of the completed measure, the vote was almost as unanimous...
...discovery that the United States government, recent sponsor of disarmament, and self-proclaimed opponent of militarism, is sponsor of Citizens Military Training Camps may conceivably give pacifistic minds a shock. What would seem a grotesquely paradoxical situation is in truth merely an excellent and intelligent educational move...
Another eminent American has looked at his world and has exalted the fascinating story of these United States in a popular "collective biography" of the American people. The American Viewpoint Society is sponsor for a series of three "American viewpoint" publications of which this is one, the others being "We and Our Government" and "We and Our Work." The activities of the Society are being conducted under the authorization and with the cooperation of the U. S. Department of Labor, primarily for the purposes of citizenship classes throughout the United States...
Representative Albert Johnson of Washington is sponsor to the new immigration bill (TIME, Feb. 25) shortly to be considered in Congress. As such, his importance gives him considerable publicity. But on Jan. 1, 1924, his bill had not yet emerged from his committee into the limelight of discussion...