Word: sponsor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gerald Nye was the sponsor of the Senate's famed munitions investigation, which drove many U.S. "merchants of death" (1934 language for arms makers) into other pursuits. No man worked harder than he to foster a national U.S. psychology of neutrality, pacifism, disarmament -the spirit which was responsible for the 1940-41 Army maneuvers in which U.S. soldiers pretended that stovepipes were cannon, and labeled old trucks "tanks...
Offered in concurrence with the Fifth War Loan drive in Cambridge is a competition among Cambridge organizations with prizes being awarded to the winning groups according to the size of the club. Organizations entering the competition sponsor the drive, and try to get as many sales credited to them as possible...
Taking pride in being the only Harvard organization to sponsor the Fifth War Loan, the Harvard Dames request that bond purchases made by members of the University be credited to them...
...American Woman's Jury (Mutual, Mon.-Fri., 1:45 p.m., E.W.T.) has been on the air for six weeks. They have been breathless weeks-even by U.S. radio standards. Fortnight after the show opened as a sustainer, it drew a fat sponsor (Lewis-Howe Co., makers of Nature's Remedy and Turns...
Manhattan's Town Hall had been hunting a sponsor for its nine-year-old weekly forum, America's Town Meeting of the Air. The New York Stock Exchange, Newsweek and Reader's Digest were all interested. Last week the rich Digest, Town Hall's first choice, made up its mind. Beginning Sept. 7 it will pay "Town Meeting's" way on 170 Blue Network stations (estimated cost for 39 weeks...