Word: sponsor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Radio, naturally enough, likes to be reassured of its popularity. Two years ago, the National Association of Broadcasters financed a survey by the National Opinion Research Center. The public cast an overwhelmingly favorable vote. Last week N.O.R.C. and Sponsor N.A.B. tried again and found that the public still cared-but not quite so much...
When Ben Grauer was a cub announcer at NBC, back in 1930, he competed with ten other announcers for a program sponsored by Gobel's bologna. The other ten sounded very highbrow, but Ben got the job. "That's the man," the sponsor cried, "that's what I sell-baloney...
Into this setting the Salzburg Seminar rose like an oasis in a desert. That it was more than a mirage is evidenced by its emulators who plans projects this year. Washington University NSA will sponsor one in Copenhagen, while a University of Chicago group plans to do the same in Germany. Other colleges throughout the nation have been stimulated to attempt similar projects, as has the Canadian International Student Service...
...Swedish National Park Society, which was to sponsor the trip in that country, wrote that it could not adequately hardly the 60 men and all but withdrew its support. At the same time, Dutch, backers, an organization of ex-underground workers, declared themselves "hesitant" to support the project in view of present conditions in that country...
Orders for the raid had come directly from Premier Maurice Duplessis, who (as Attorney General) is both executor and sponsor of the 1937 padlock law banning the use of premises for disseminating Communist propaganda "by any means whatsoever." In the 32 months before he went out of office in November 1939, Duplessis used the law eleven times. Until last week, he had not used it once since his return to power in August 1944. Now, with provincial elections just around the corner, the law seemed just the ticket for the anti-Red campaign which is supposed to bring in many...