Word: sponsored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...club will sponsor a monster rally in the interest of Boston and Haigis at Cantabridgian Hall Thursday night at 8 o'clock. At this rally the chief speaker will be Robert T. Bushnell, former District Attorney of Middlesex County, one of the foremost orators in the Commonwealth. Other speakers will be Judge Frankland W. L. Miles of the Roxbury Court and Professor Arthur L. Brown of the Boston University Law School...
...HOUSE BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD--a new feature with a new sponsor. Tony Wons goes philosophically dramatic with excellent supporting music and comedy. If you're a Wons fan, you'll be listenin't (NBC-WEAF network Sundays...
...keep people from starving is the Federal Relief Administration's chief job, but it likes to give them food for the mind as well as the body. So it pays Hilda Smith, friend of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt and onetime dean of Bryn Mawr, to sponsor a summer School for Workers on Manhattan's East side. There unemployed teachers get jobs and unemployed workers become pupils, get $8 a week. Last week newshawks wandered in, discovered a rack in which supplementary reading was provided for the pupils...
...Present sponsor of the survey for which Mr. Doane worked is Langdon W. Post, Tenement House Commissioner of New York City's own New Deal Administration. When Commissioner Post heard of Mr. Doane's assault on the "economy of abundance," he said: "I suppose I'll have to take the responsibility for firing him." Out next day went Mr. Doane and 26 others. One of Mr. Doane's coworkers on the survey promptly pointed out that even in 1929 46,000,000 U. S. citizens had incomes of less than $426. hence could not be expected to buy two suits...
That was in New Orleans in 1920. Next spring Los Angeles police stopped John Cudney's meetings on "Miracle Hill" because lepers were mixing with the crowds. But his Los Angeles sponsor, Mrs. Ella Farley, had already cleaned up with picture postcards of him at 25? each and her brother had cleared $4,000 on the "Miracle Hill" soda pop concession. U. S. postal authorities continued to permit thousands of handkerchiefs to be sent to him for blessing, because he made no charge...