Word: sponsor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old monthly Christian Register since 1943, held one of the key jobs in the tiny Unitarian hierarchy. He also held membership in a list of alleged Party-line organizations as long as his left arm; he contributed to the Communist weekly New Masses and was a sponsor of the pseudo-pacifist, Communist-front "Yanks Are Not Coming Committee." Then, when Russia was attacked, he turned into what he called "a fighting liberal." After the war, as U.S.Soviet friendship cooled, some Unitarians thought that the Christian Register was flying on Moscow's beam...
Last week Manhattan's Whitney Museum, the nation's top sponsor of U.S. art, was celebrating the 100th anniversary of Blakelock's birth with a retrospective show of his work. His, said the catalogue, was "one of the most tragic artists' lives ever recorded. Before we congratulate ourselves that it could not happen today, let us be sure that we have gained enough wisdom to recognize our gifted individuals no matter how far they may diverge from the norm...
...Caen to come down for a drink. "I thought they were being good guys," he says, "but they slipped me a Mickey." Today he is more careful about the company he keeps. He makes $24,700 a year from the Chronicle and a weekly radio program for a beer sponsor (titled What's Brewing in San Francisco). He can afford to turn down handsome offers from Hearst's rival Examiner, whose company he does not wish to keep...
...final phase of its drive to stimulate student letters and telegrams to Congress on the subject of labor legislation now pending in Washington, the Liberal Union will sponsor a symposium entitled. "What About Labor Legislation" at 7:30 o'clock tonight in Emerson...
...which time remains the crucial element. It would be criminal for either the mandatory power or the UN to put relief for the Dps until Palestine's political status is settled, a prospect that now seems months or years away. It may be that the UN itself should sponsor immigration of 100,000 Jews into Palestine while the forth-coming investigation takes place. At no other time could the real and not the imagined effects of large scale Jewish immigration be under such careful UN scrutiny. The results of such immigration would go a long way towards determining whether partition...