Word: sponsored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...back from Omaha, the President was up and had breakfasted by 6:30, when his train drew into St. Louis. Mrs. Coolidge and he were met by Luther E. Smith, an Amherst classmate, Mayor Miller and Representative Dyer (sponsor of the Anti-Lynching Bill) and driven through St. Louis parks, stopping at the zoo, where the President got down to look at the bears. An hour later the Presidential train was on its way eastward once more...
...full name of this 0. M. S. was announced as "The Organization for the Maintenance of Supplies"; and several peers, among them Admiral Lord Jellicoe, Lord Hardinge of Penshurst, Viscount Falkland, Major General Lord Scarbrough, Lord. Ranfurly, Admiral Sir Alexander Duff, Lieut.-General Sir Francis Lloyd, stood sponsor for what would seem to be a most ambitious attempt at organizing the country to protect and feed itself, in case of a national emergency...
Years ago when the Chapel Committee first established voluntary attendance at Appleton Chapel, an offer was made to hold the building open on Sunday mornings for the use of any sect wishing to hold special services. The St. Paul's Society is the first to sponsor a movement to take advantage of this offer...
...matter. The mind is willing but obstacles overwhelm. In 1924, New York University attempted it, bowed to "unforeseen difficulties," postponed it a year. Last week, "the detail work" caused postponement for another year. This announcement followed upon a statement, a fortnight ago, from Dean James E. Lough, author and sponsor of "Around the World College" (TIME, June 29), that the S. S. University only awaited a full passenger list (men only) to set sail...
Thus, last week, ended a third effort to explore the top of the world in heavier-than-air craft.* In other radio messages to the National Geographic Society (his sponsor), Commander MacMillan detailed his plans for retreating down the Greenland coast in advance of the winter ice-floes already making in Smith Sound. At every step, the Far North had rebuked the trespassers with unusually inclement weather. In July, ice-floes delayed the Bowdoin and Peary as far south as Battle Harbor, Labrador. When they reached Etah, they found that heavy winter storms had pared down the beach and piled...