Word: sponsor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what does last week's bill do to the Communists? Probably nothing. It was aimed not at them but at another group, the Republicans. The bill's sponsor, Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey, was trying to deflect the Republican charge that Democrats are soft on Communism...
...Chicago, Admiral Corp. announced that this fall, Bishop Fulton J. Sheen's Life Is Worth Living would be seen over 60-odd TV stations instead of last year's total of 169. In Manhattan, Bishop Sheen appeared unperturbed by his sponsor trouble. Explaining that he had been deluged by letters from his fans protesting the decision, the bishop said: "I am sure that when we return to the air in November we will be on more stations than ever before-close...
...President's most thumping defeat in the House came on his public-housing request, but the Speaker salvaged enough to deliver a face-saver for the Administration. As Charlie Halleck explained the trouble, he could not ask Michigan's Jesse Wolcott, the committee chairman involved, to sponsor a public-housing bill, because "Jesse spent years barnstorming around the country denouncing public housing. So did I, for that matter." When the bill came back from the Senate for the settling of differences between the two Houses, Speaker Martin moved in with a compromise formula. It was accepted and last...
...According to her House sponsor, Ohio's Frances Bolton, the first foreigner so honored...
...mere $194,875 will buy one full hour of Class A (evening) time on all the U.S.'s 382 commercial TV stations. Although network key stations in New York value their evenings at about $6,000 an hour, the national average is only $510. In Bellingham, Wash, a sponsor can buy an evening hour on KVOS...