Word: sponsored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Delighted at this really "safe" issue, the Deputies rose to support or confute Dr. Pinard. An unidentified Deputy shouted: "Don't you know that if you take their sucettes away, they'll suck their dirty fingers?" Incensed, the sponsor of the bill replied: "At least, Monsieur, the little ones cannot swallow their fingers and choke to death, as often happens when a sucette becomes lodged in the throat...
...Manhattan, in Chicago, at Denver, Los Angeles, Houston, New Orleans, Quebec?similar rejoicing. Everywhere raucous youth snapped up "Thanks for the Buggy Ride" (words and music by one Jules Buffano; sponsor, an obscure San Francisco firm). Swiftly crabbed age constructed buggies and horses out of beaverboard, harness out of string, snatched wheels from baby perambulators, concocted numberless impromptu window displays. Awed jazz fanciers mentioned buggies and bananas in the same gin-whiffed breath...
...backers of the moneyed sport, many of them college graduates, declare that their project will not prove a bad influence on the collegiate game. Thus Dr. Harry A. March, sponsor of the Giants declares that "everything is done to prevent an amateur from commercializing his ability while he still belongs to an amateur organization. Everything is done to keep down gambling. I also believe that with the incentive of a professional career ahead, college players will constantly better the standard of their game. The professional game will also bring the small college player his due. Take the case of Parnell...
...bolt of the Socialists was, of course, caused by the fact that Premier Painlevé refused to sponsor wholeheartedly their darling project of a "capital levy." M. Painlevé straddled as widely as he could, and it is reported that he will propose a levy on income so "broad" that it amounts to practically the same thing as one on capital. But that would not suit the Socialists. Why then did not M. Painlevé yield completely and veer to the extreme Left, adding to his support the 100 Socialist votes? Answered the politicians: "He knew that...
...Supreme Court decision and has suggested that the trade meetings between competing steel companies may be resumed without fear of the law. In behalf of the suggestion, Mr. Gary expressed his opinion that such meetings would serve to "stabilize" the industry. But it is doubted that he will sponsor the move by banqueting his competitors in the former fashion...