Word: sponsored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Herbert Henry Lehman, the State's present Lieutenant-Governor. Governor Roosevelt has made Colonel Lehman his political heir, will try to force his nomination at the Democratic State convention. Force may be necessary because of the hostile attitude of Tammany Hall, not toward Colonel Lehman personally but toward his sponsor. To head off the Lehman candidacy and embarrass Governor Roosevelt, Tammany bosses have threatened to put James John ("Jimmy") Walker into the contest, if he is removed as New York's Mayor. An outside Democratic candidate is Albany's tall, gangling Mayor John Boyd Thacher...
...accept $26,000 in bonds as "profits of an ordinary, lawful business transaction" from a brokerage firm interested in taxicabs, but he did not sponsor the kind of municipal legislation they sought...
...sponsor a bus franchise to the financially irresponsible Equitable Coach Co., backed by a close friend, but did not know it was unfit to receive the award until later...
...pointing to his little board, and to be photographed while doing it. Not every one was aware that this was not the God Man's first arrival in the U. S. Last December he quietly terminated an unpublicized stayin Harmon, N. Y., returned unostentatiously to India while his sponsor, a retired bookseller named Malcolm Schloss, began making plans for a triumphal reentry. Meher Baba, said Sponsor Schloss, would bring to the U. S. an "infinite state." In July he would break his silence with an internationally broadcast talk. What Meher Baba did was eat, play ping pong and cricket...
...ship by a member of the crew, a tropical scene by the daughter of an officer in Panama. Not removed from its place of honor in the control car was the photograph of Mrs. Coolidge which she had inscribed: "To the good ship Los Angeles from her sponsor mother. 'Go forth under the open sky and may the winds of heaven deal gently with thee...