Word: sponsored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Austin and Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt. By 1934 she had interested enough volunteer talent to put on the first National Folk Festival in St. Louis. She arranged the second Festival in Chattanooga, last year's in Dallas. Envoys from colleges and towns, winners of State Festivals were welcomed. Some sponsor always paid the deficit. This year Chicago's Adult Education Council agreed to give $12,000 and Chicago's Orchestra Hall last week housed one more National Folk Festival. Performers traveled from States as far apart as New Mexico and Connecticut, all week did their turns. Outstanding turns...
...Borah spotted an item of $1,000 for care of a herd of cattle in Oklahoma's Wichita Mountains. It had been recommended not by the Department of Agriculture but by the Senate Appropriations Committee, and Senator Borah rose to question it. Up stood the item's sponsor, Oklahoma's handsome white-crested Elmer Thomas, to explain that the cattle were one of the last herds of longhorns left in the U. S. "These cattle are friends of mine," cried he. "I have been down to see them. I know them...
Undergraduate sponsor is the United Peace Committee. Participants include the Student Union, the Teachers Union, and the Radcliffe Student Union...
Although no schedule has been laid forth for the coming year, the new chairman declared that the committee will sponsor more dances, one during the football season, and at least one or two in the latter part of the winter session...
Jimplecute is a word formed from the initials of the paper's original motto: "Join Industry Manufacturing Planting Labor Energy Capital in Unity Together Ever-lastingly.'' Do other readers approve of its sound and proposed meaning enough to sponsor its admission into the language...