Word: sponsor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...voters knew they were getting no statesman. Senator Brooks was one of the bitterest of pre-Pearl Harbor isolationists, a loud, rabble-rousing opponent of Lend-Lease, of draft extension, of revision of the Neutrality Act. Brooks, a veteran of three defeats for other offices which his sponsor, the Chicago Tribune, had sought for him, had squeaked through to victory in 1940 while the electorate's eyes were focused on the more important Roosevelt-Willkie campaign. In 17½ months in the Senate his only achievement had been membership on the hapless isolationist committee which had tried to smear...
Members of the association compete weekly in dual meets, each team represented by three crews. In addition to these dual meets, the association will sponsor eight regattas this spring, the first of which will be the annual George Owen Trophy Regatta in the Charles River Basin, sponsored by the Harvard Yacht Club...
...which has been running for a month, is unavailable to most U.S. radio listeners. Studded with top-flight talent, free from commercials, bathos, exhortations to "keep 'em flying," etc., it is a cheerful half-hour of unadulterated entertainment. Name of the show is Command Performance. Sponsor: Uncle...
President Georges Gerard '43 plans to sponsor a forum dealing with the bombing of Paris, though many of the speakers suggested were too busy with extra work to take part in the discussion. Such a forum would probably be broadcast over the Crimson Network...
Comedian Jack Benny, to whom Comedian Bob Hope presented a special Oscar for being "sweater girl of the year" (in Charley's Aunt), got another present last week-not to be opened until autumn. Next season, Sponsor General Foods confessed, Benny will plug some other General Foods product, not the Jell-O with which he shares his present fame. Reason: JellO, being 60% sugar, may not be made nor sold in sufficient quantities to warrant the expensive exertions of Funnyman Benny, whose new two-year contract calls for a salary of $22,000 a week for 35 weeks-highest...