Word: sponsor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Next day Sponsor Landon seemed to need a sponsor himself. During a brief stay in Washington, he had passed harsh judgment on Cordell Hull's Moscow achievements-so harsh, in fact, that Hearst's N.Y. Daily Mirror rejoiced: "To use Mr. Landon's own expressive word again, the Moscow conference was a 'cheat'. . . . We need more of the Landon type of outspoken courage today." Some Republicans felt they could do with a bit less of it, and ex-President Herbert Hoover gallantly came to Mr. Landon's rescue. "The Governor did not take...
...heavy expenses involved, the Harvard Athletic Association will not sponsor a Varsity hockey team this season, it was announced by the Committee on Athletics Tuesday night. They also decided to curtail the basketball team's activities this year...
...sound off on his earlier line that "This is not our bill." O'Mahoney said that Williams himself went to Wyoming last summer to try to get him to sponsor...
...true imperturbability. As "the brain" and foil of the comedy team of Burns & Allen (CBS, Tues., 9-9:30 p.m E.W.T.), he was thankful that his old vaudeville routines, neatly brought up to modern times, were worth $10,000 a week as a package show to his sponsor (Swan Soap), and he was delighted with the show's 15,000,000-odd listeners...
Austria-Hungary's handsome, exiled Empress Zita turned up in Washington the day after the Moscow Declarations were announced. There her eldest son, Otto Habsburg, pretender to the 25-years-gone Austro-Hungarian thrones and sponsor last year of the abortive Austrian Battalion (29 voluntary recruits), announced importantly that he was ready for anything, might be back in Vienna within a matter of months. Said one Austrian exile: "In America, Otto may still be a question; in Europe, he certainly...