Word: sponsored
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary. Three notable names combine to give this play preliminary prestige before the curtain, rises. David Belasco, foremost American producer for many years, will sponsor it; St. John Ervine, Irish novelist and playwright, is the author; Mrs. Fiske, Mother Superior of the order of American actresses, will be the star. Mr. Belasco will import an English leading man. The play is a modern comedy...
General Wu Pei-Fu, Tuchun of the Yangtzi Valley. Owes all his power to steel and smoke. He was the military sponsor of the Peking Government. It is suggested that General Wu has been bought off by Marshal Tsao-Kun, which would explain his non-partisan attitude in the recent militarist coup in Peking...
...miner. Later he became the first district attorney of Nome. He returned to the United States proper, and settled in Tonopah, Nev., one of the Nevada silver and gold mining cities. In 1912 he was elected to the Senate. There, naturally a champion of the mining industry, he became sponsor for the Pittman Act of 1918 for breaking up silver dollars and selling them as bullion at $1.00 an ounce, during the brief post-war period during which the price of silver went soaring. Under the Pittman Act the Government pays $1.00 an ounce for American silver used to replace...
Governor Allen, good Kansan and sponsor of the Kansas Industrial Court, was not so optimistic. He termed Russia " the industrial paradise of idleness." He found the peasants returning to the church; he found women wearing furs and jewels once more. But he declared that if American relief is stopped " 50,000 helpless people in the Black Sea region alone will perish...
Again a serious proposal is being made to undo the mischief of the tower of Babel and supply the world with a universal language. Dean West of the Princeton Graduate School is the sponsor of the new movement, suggesting simplified Latin as an auxiliary tongue to be used by "the statesman and the traveler, the scholar, the professional man and the business...