Word: sponsor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...right to re-enter the country (said one official: "That might prejudice our case"). But the press speculated on some reasons: the McCarran Act bars aliens from entering the U.S. on grounds of morals, or for membership or affiliation with Communist organizations. Chaplin has been cited as a sponsor for some Communist-front groups, and the noisy Chaplin-Joan Berry paternity suit, decided against the comedian (TIME, April 30,1945), might leave him open to a charge of "moral turpitude...
WHRB also plans to present a series of 13 broadcasts entitled "The Jeffersonian Heritage"; Clande Rains will star in the programs, which present "the dramatized ideas which are the enduring possessions of all Americans and all free peoples," according to the sponsor's advertisement...
...show has paid off to the extent of five-year contract with sponsor Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. This summer, 34 U.S newspapers began running a new comic strip, using Dragnet's characters and atmosphere (but not its plots). By the firs of the year, Webb hopes to have a new show called Pete Kelly's Blues ready for TV. After his long life of crime, Jack Webb will star as a trumpet-blowing musician of the 1920s...
Cott sold the show to its first sponsor by dumping a sack of unopened mail on a desk and offering odds that there wouldn't be a single uncomplimentary letter in the lot. Since then, Music has averaged five sponsors a night (ranging from Victor records to Dormin, a sleeping pill). Despite Cott's boast, there have been critical letters aplenty. Almost all of them say, in effect, that the trouble with the show is that music lovers can't bring themselves to turn the radio...
...organization's objectives are to encourage and sponsor research in accounting and to promote studies of accounting as an agency of control of business enterprise and of economic affairs in general...