Word: sponsored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Arthur I. Kendall's "Civilization and the Microbe," the much abused microbe will find a worthy sponsor and genuine admirer. Some of the facts which the Dean of Northwestern University of Medicine points out in the fascinating realm of bacteriology are "that without microbes life could not exist on this earth, that one microbe can theoretically increase within twenty-four hours to 78,700,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, that it takes fifteen millions of millions average microbes to weigh an ounce...
...believe it is the only hope of obtaining a better social system in industry. I would like to see such a party originate preferably in the American Federation of Labor; but this, I feel, will not materialize. I can't see how either of the two present parties can sponsor a labor program. A labor party is the only solution...
Senator Smoot, who is due to inherit the Chairmanship of the Senate Finance Committee, went about Washington conferring with the President and Secretary Mellon. The President declined to commit himself. Secretary Mellon wants to reduce income surtaxes and wants the Administration to sponsor a tax bill for that purpose in the next Congress. Senator Smoot agrees that taxes should be reduced but is opposed to any attempt by the Administration in that direction during the following Congress...
Ohio, mother of Harding, Taft, McKinley, Benjamin Harrison, Garfield, Hayes, Grant, is the sponsor of two new booms for the Republican Presidential nomination in 1924. Senators Frank B. Willis and Simeon D. Fess are the objects of attention. Both have been Representatives, both are Senators, both were professors of history...
...announced that a fluid prepared by Professor von Weniger, of Rio de Janeiro, tested in a Berlin sanatorium, has been found a specific for tuberculosis. The fluid contains thorium, uranium, manganese and various acids, and is said to dissolve the fatty covering of the tuberculosis bacilli. Colleagues of the sponsor are sceptical of his claims...