Word: sponsored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...again studied at Columbia and at Harvard Summer School. She got into social service work, teaching soiled urchins at South Boston's old Denison House. One day the telephone rang and a voice asked her if she would go along as a passenger on a transatlantic airplane flight. The sponsor of the project thought it would be good publicity to take a woman along. Amelia said at once that she would...
...will not be a candidate there is no one safer for another candidate to plump for. 4) By speaking up, Governor Earle got himself what every candidate needs most, early publicity. Finally, though a third-term campaign might wreck Franklin Roosevelt if he pressed it, acting as its first sponsor could not harm George Earle and bringing it into the open early might be the best way of heading...
...summer students of Ithaca College and of Cornell's University Theatre. Union College at Schenectady is also very summer theatre-minded. Dixon Ryan Fox had just become president of Union three years ago when he persuaded his trustees to set up an Institute of the Theatre which would sponsor an annual Mohawk Drama Festival in July and August. Governor Lehman, the Boy Scouts and civic bodies all over the Mohawk Valley have enthusiastically sponsored the Festival. Colonel Frederick S. Greene, State Superintendent of Public Works, had Festival road signs posted in a 50-mi. radius of Schenectady, and this...
...building and the Government of Southern Rhodesia moved in. Immediately Rhodesian High Commissioner Stephen Martin Lanigan O'Keeffe tried to have the statues removed, to the rage of Sculptor Epstein and esthetes in general. Artist Richard Sickert resigned from the Royal Academy because that solemn body refused to sponsor a public appeal for the statues' preservation, and with all the hullabaloo the move to oust the statues was quietly dropped...
Pittsburgh ladies liked Modarelli because he was dark and dynamic, as attractively reserved off the platform as he was wild-haired and passionate upon it. Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. liked his conducting well enough in 1936 to sponsor the Symphony in a 40-station hookup over NBC. The Mellon family began to take an interest. Andrew Mellon's Son Paul became treasurer. Last May the Board began to lay elaborate plans for a 20-week season with conductors like Walter Damrosch, Otto Klemperer, Eugene Goossens, Carlos Chavez, Georges Enesco. Paul and Andrew Mellon pledged...