Word: sponsor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...show, a tale about "the big heart of Broadway" coming to the rescue of a young couple from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was as loaded with corny sentiment as with talk. Says Author Hecht: "We had to make the first one very sentimental because we used it to sell the sponsor [Willys Motors]." His second show last week was on the more Hechtian subject of hate; it told how a woman who has spent ten years in jail for shooting the other woman in a domestic triangle completes the job by plugging her husband...
...visited some of the forlorn, cold, little children [of Kalavryta] in their primitive, unheated houses, partially rebuilt . . . [These] children are available for sponsorship through the Save the Children Federation at $8 per month . . . Readers who cannot sponsor a child but who would like to help may send contributions ... to this organization at the Carnegie Endowment International Center, U.N. Plaza, New York...
Within 24 hours, Utah's Republican Senator Arthur V. Watkins, Lyon's sponsor, withdrew his support. Then Lyon himself, realizing that the committee would not confirm him, withdrew his name. Director John J. Forbes, a coal mine safety specialist who has worked in the bureau 38 years, will stay on until someone else is appointed. The main responsibility for proposing so vulnerable a nominee as Lyon rested on one man: Secretary of the Interior Douglas McKay, who had insisted that Lyon...
...Illinois G.O.P. for 20 years, has a deep interest in foreign affairs, is president of Chicago's International House. A former state commander of the American Legion, he worked hard and effectively in the Eisenhower campaign. After the election, he asked his friend Everett Dirksen to sponsor him for an appointment to UNESCO. Dirksen agreed, and things looked set, particularly because Shillinglaw was also an old friend of Under Secretary of State Donold Lourie...
Then Shillinglaw's clearance got bogged down in federal security procedure. The FBI called Sponsor Dirksen's attention to Shillinglaw's membership in the Institute of Pacific Relations, which the Senate Internal Security (McCarran) Subcommittee had found to have been infiltrated by Communist sympathizers. Shillinglaw said that he had satisfied himself that the I.P.R. had purged itself of subversive elements. But Dirksen, fearful of objections in the Senate, especially by McCarran and Joe McCarthy, asked Shillinglaw to withdraw anyway. Replied Shillinglaw: No-"It's a matter of honor...