Word: sponsored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Incentive. Col. W. E. Easterwood Jr., of Dallas, Tex., renewed his 1927 offer of $25,000 for the first flight from Hongkong, China to Dallas last week. He hoped that James Drummond Dole, Hawaiian pineapple sponsor of the Oakland, Cal. to Honolulu race in 1927, would add another $25,000 for the race. It involves stops at Tokyo, Honolulu and on the Pacific Coast...
...omniscience. She out-poker-faces that other Helen of California, and she knows instantly every rill of information that affects or may affect the University. Is there an unwise movement developing in the student body? She touches invisible button number one, and the matter ends. Does a faculty member sponsor a doubtful local issue? Invisible button number two avoids the difficulty, and it is done so skillfully that neither student nor faculty member holds the slightest rancor, nor in fact quite knows how it all came about...
Dartmouth undergraduates after two years of unorganized interest have formed an aviation club which will sponsor a series of aeronautical lectures at the college. The organizers are planning the purchase of a plane for flying at the White River Junction Airport...
Frank Billings Kellogg, onetime (1925-29) U. S. Secretary of State, sponsor of the Kellogg Peace Pact, was given the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor, highest award of France, by Paul Claudel. French Ambassador to the U. S. Said Ambassador Claudel: "This red and flaming badge of honor could find no better place than across your chest...
Harvard will sponsor its Annual Interscholastic Cross Country Run, open to high schools and preparatory schools this morning at 10.30 o'clock. At that time the preparatory schools will race and the high school meet will begin a 11 o'clock. The high school course will be laid on the track around the circumference of Soldiers Field. Competitor will run around the field twice, a distance of the little over two miles; the prep school teams will have to run a distance of three and one half miles...